The quilting points of musical modernsim
J. P. E. Harper-Scott · 2012
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Music in context
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 277
- ISBN
- 9780521765213
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