Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Liberalism, autonomy and the social functions of art; 2. Radical and social aesthetics in the Vormärz; 3. Speaking for the Volk: music, politics and Vormärz festivals; 4. Revolutionary voices: blueprints for an aesthetic state; 5. Music and the politics of post-revolutionary culture; 6. The song of the workers: idylls and activism; Bibliography.