Nacionalismo y música clásica

From the importance of the role played by music in the French Revolution to Shostakovich's "Seventh Symphony", classical music and nationalism have maintained throughout history a symbiotic relationship that has defined a good part of our imaginary through the creation of national communities and all the cultural scaffolding that sustains them, the enhancement of folkloric traditions, etc. Written from the privileged perspective provided by the crossroads between musicology and sociology, "Nationalism and classical music" presents a rigorous and brilliant analysis of the relationship between these two fundamental elements of contemporary history and the products of their encounter, exploring the way in which music has participated in the gestation of western nations and the way in which this connection in turn defined the paths followed by classical music.