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4/4. Elgar and Englishness. The critic
Ernest Newman described Elgar's music as expressive of the very soul of the British race. Nalini Ghuman , professor of music at Mills College, California, however, argues that the critical obsession with identifying in Elgar's music an essential Englishness has served to confine his work within the nation's boundaries, bolstering nostalgia for the imperial past.
