How to analyze a book citation
Plantinga, Leon. "Beethoven, Napoleon, and Political Romanticism." In The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music, edited by Jane F. Fulcher, 484-500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
The citation refers to a chapter in an edited book.
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