At a time of cultural historys significant revival, The New Cultural History of Music series avails the growing momentum of the dual research efforts of historians and musicologists in this now-vibrant area of research. Scholars of both disciplines understand the growing need to address and engage in dialogue with the other, spawning a fresh approach to the study of music within its cultural, intellectual, political, and social context. The New Cultural History of Music series offers books for both students and professional scholars of musicology and history, works that employ the most recent methodological or theoretical perspectives. As all true cultural histories, these books are premised upon the belief that no one element of culture can be fully understood alone that music can illuminate the cultural context or landscape in which it was conceived and, in turn, can be further illuminated by this context.