The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music Contributor(s): Heile, Björn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138259837 ISBN-13: 9781138259836 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
Dewey: 780.904 |
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 276 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways. |