The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers“[Mauceri’s] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been on.”—Air Mail“Fluently written and often cogent.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal John Mauceri offers a lively and passionate reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century, in which he argues that the history of music during the ...