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This Chapter, the Introduction to the book, takes as its title Theodor Adorno’s reference to ‘the music we are accustomed to call classical’, and looks at the main themes which run through the 50 years covered by this book, and the emergence of the concept of ‘classical music’ in the nineteenth century. It continues by examining the taxonomy, then establishing a definition for ‘classical music’, extending that to ‘classical music radio’ and concludes by reviewing the sources and metrics for this study.
Shape of this history—themes and variations—‘the music we are accustomed to call classical’: the emergence of a classical music canonic repertoire; terminology and taxonomy; a working definition of ‘classical music radio’—sources and metrics: programme content database; audience database; written archives; interviews.
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Stoller, T. (2018). Introduction: The Music we are accustomed to call Classical. In: Classical Music Radio in the United Kingdom, 1945–1995. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64710-4_1
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