Description |
xxii, 277 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Music in context
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Music in context.
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Summary |
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic, and even unnatural. Drawing extensively on the philosophy of Heidegger and Badiou, Quilting Points proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive, and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Modernism (Music)
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Modernism (Music) |
ISBN |
9780521765213 alkaline paper |
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0521765218 alkaline paper |
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