Ben Earle is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches the history, analysis and aesthetics of music. Before moving to Birmingham he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. His research interests lie in Italian and British music of the mid-twentieth century and his articles and reviews have appeared in a number of edited volumes and also in the journals Music and Letters, Music Analysis, Radical Musicology and Il saggiatore musicale. He is a member of the editorial board of Music Analysis. This is his first book.

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• Preface; 1. Modernism before fascism; 2. The true spirit of Italian music; 3. Fascist modernism; 4. Protest music?; 5. The politics of commitment.

Ben Earle is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches the history, analysis and aesthetics of music. Before moving to Birmingham he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. His research interests lie in Italian and British music of the mid-twentieth century and his articles and reviews have appeared in a number of edited volumes and also in the journals Music and Letters, Music Analysis, Radical Musicology and Il saggiatore musicale. He is a member of the editorial board of Music Analysis. This is his first book.

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• Preface; 1. Modernism before fascism; 2. The true spirit of Italian music; 3. Fascist modernism; 4. Protest music?; 5. The politics of commitment.