Revisiting the Popular in Music History

This book brings together a significant part of the Derek B. Scott's diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it can play a role in the development of social justice and a democratic culture. Where music history is concerned, Scott argues that we should offer interpretations that question the extent to which critics and historians have prized ethnicity and nat