Arthur Strangways

Arthur Strangways

Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859–1948) was a music critic who wrote for "The Observer".

Rabindrasangeet

Strangeways first introduced non-Bengalis to "rabindrasangeet" with his book "The Music of Hindostan", which described it as a "vehicle of a personality ... [that] go behind this or that system of music to that beauty of sound which all systems put out their hands to seize."Harvnb|Dutta|Robinson|1995|p=359.]

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