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Your browser does not support the audio element. In The Essence of Christianity (1841) Feuerbach works through the theological crisis of his age to articulate the ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.