Given the current direction of travel of global politics, this wide-ranging and fascinating survey has a particular timely quality to it. A collaboration between a music historian and a historian of political nationalism, it carefully teases apart the different strands that make up the expression of national sentiment in music. SUNDAY TIMES A lucid and worthwhile overview of important themes in the study of nations and nationalisms, affirming both the continued relevance of these issues for interpreting and appreciating Western classical music, and the growing significance of music for cultural and social history. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Can find a home with both music historians and regular historians and sociologists...should provide for fruitful discussion and future enquiry that will hopefully bring the fields of musicology and national studies into closer contact and communication. FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE Presents a detailed survey of the relationship between music and nationalism over a period of two and half centuries... explor[ing] a subject that is perhaps more relevant now than at any time in the past century. MUSIC AND LETTERS This excellent book is a collaboration between music historian Matthew Riley and the late Professor Anthony D Smith, who lectured in nationalism and ethnicity...this intriguing study is as good as we expect from Boydell Press. CLASSICAL MUSIC