Snapshot: Two Views of Music and Class

Social movements calling themselves music revivals are a prominent feature of the twentieth-century musical landscape. Music revivals have occurred in the United States, Canada, Germany, England, Brazil, India, Russia, Scotland, and elsewhere. Their focus is as wide-ranging as their geographical spread; they span from the revival of a single instrument—the harpsichord , the Northumbrian small-pipe, the lute—to the re-creation of entire popular, indigenous, or art music...