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Messiah and the Cultural Canon
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Signature profile
Messiah and the Cultural Canon reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
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What it's about
Last autumn, the government presented 100 works that will be included in a cultural canon. Ten of these are music. What kind of work is it? How do they sound? Who are the people behind the works? And do the works have any echo in Sweden today? Messiah Hallberg asks music professor Mattias Lundberg.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 10 episodes.
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Season 1
202610 episodes
Last autumn, the government presented 100 works that will be included in a cultural canon. Ten of these are music. What kind of work is it? How do they sound? Who are the people behind the works? And do the works have any echo in Sweden today? Messiah Hallberg asks music professor Mattias Lundberg.
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