Music's Nordic Breakthrough: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Cultural Exchange, 1890-1930

A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens.

Following the end of the Cold War, a former East-West binary model of European identity has been replaced with a series of more complex and variegated patterns. Northern Europe is one such territory, and the idea of the 'North' more generally has come in for increased critical scrutiny. This volume reappraises the work of Sibelius, Nielsen and their contemporaries, but it also reass...