Write a brief essay outlining the mid-nineteenth-century debate over nationality between the “nativist” view and that of the expatriates.

What will be an ideal response?

 “nativist” view: that there should evolve a distinctively American music, developing a life of its own not in the shadow of European tradition, together with an audience to appreciate and support such musican idealistic desire to express the national, the specificthe belief that music should express this place and this time expatriates’ view (or the critics’ view): a reverential attitude toward European masters (mainly Germanic)an idealistic dedication to the cosmopolitan, the universalthe belief that music should transcend place and time 

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