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Elgar and Englishness
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Nalini Ghuman warns against seeing Elgar's music as inherently English.
Ernest Newman described Elgar's music as expressive of 'the very soul of our race'. Nalini Ghuman, Professor of Music at Mills College California, argues that the critical obsession with identifying in Elgar's music an essential Englishness has served to confine the music within the nation's boundaries.
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Thu 31 Jul 200823:00
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