The emergence of modern nationalism in Europe was the product of multiple political, social, and intellectual developments. The French Revolution contributed powerful ideas of popular sovereignty and citizenship, while economic modernization and state-building transformed the relationship between rulers and populations. At the same time, a distinct intellectual tradition emerged in the German-speaking lands during the late eighteenth century. One of the most influential expre

Florence Beatrice Price did not appear suddenly in American musical history, nor did her achievement emerge in isolation. Her work stands at the end of a long, uneven intellectual and institutional process, one that begins not in the United States, but in nineteenth-century Europe. To understand what Price achieved, and why it mattered, it is necessary to begin with the composer who first articulated, from outside America, a systematic diagnosis of its cultural condition: Ant