Schubert's Music in England

Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption: Music in England

In this article we use recent survey data to test three arguments on the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption: i.e. what we label as the homology, individualization and omnivore–univore arguments. We note various conceptual and methodological problems in the ways these arguments have been advanced, and stress in particular the importance of maintaining the Weberia...

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and "nazi Rock" in England and Germany

Personal Health Budgets in England: Mood Music or Death Knell for the National Health Service?

Personal health budgets in England are National Health Service (NHS) funds that can be allocated to certain groups of patients to allow them, together with their NHS support staff, to purchase services or equipment that they believe will enhance their health and well-being. Some see this as a welcome personalization of health care that increases people's control over their health. However, pers...

Extended Play: Reflections of Heinrich Isaac's Music in Early Tudor England

The so-called Henry VIII's Book (London, British Library Add. MS 31922) contains two textless pieces by Isaac-his three-part Benedictus and the four-part La my-together with a number of other Franco-Flemish "songs without words" typical of the contents of manuscripts copied for the North Italian courts where the earliest viol consorts were being developed in the 1490S and early 1500s. Alongside...