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Britishness and the classical guitar after 1950: composers, performers and identity in the contemporary British guitar repertoire [posted: 22.08.09]
Re-worked paper first delivered at the Galpin Society’s ‘Making the British Sound’ Conference in Edinburgh (July 10 2009).
In his essay ‘The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments’, Kevin Dawe points out that musical instruments are ‘as symbolic and emblematic of peoples and places as any other musical phenomenon’ and when they cross cultural boundaries (for example […]
