Music and Eugenics with Alexander Cowan

Sound Expertise by Will Robin

Nov 26, 202448:59Music

From its beginnings, the eugenics movement has looked to music: for foundational figures like Francis Galton and contemporaries like Charles Murray, the child-prodigy composer or violinist could serve to demonstrate that...

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