books.google.co.uk - In his new book, Michael Chanan examines the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas's study of the transformation of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/From_Handel_to_Hendrix.html?id=0gYk1JdN3OYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFrom Handel to Hendrix
