Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music

�...an excellent addition to the growing corpus of symposia about musical life in 19th-century Britain.... It is well documented and produced, and it is yet another gratifying example of Ashgate's strong support of British music studies.� NABMSA Newsletter �... interesting and wide-ranging, of use to the general scholar of British studies and the music scholar alike... All of the essays [...] are of great interest and well written.� Journal of British Studies �Here is another fascinating addition to Ashgate's incrementally rewarding series examining music in 19th-century Britain... enjoyable and enlightening... it is to Cowgill and Rushton's credit that the assembled contributions [...] interlock and cross-fertilise themselves, building a latticework of references and ideas that serve to enlarge and illuminate each other... an informative and stimulating book that has as much to tell us about the here-and-now as about the past.� Classical Music (4 stars rating) �This stimulating volume is appropriately dedicated to the memory of the economic and music historian Cyril Ehrlich, whose work and personality inspired the younger generations of scholars engaged in developing the new approaches and topics demonstrated here.� Victorian Studies �... this collection is a fine addition to studies of this period and place, and at its best offers fruitful examples of how British music studies can continue to grow while expanding the intellectual hinterland.� Music and Letters