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The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
Bjorn . Ed(S): Heile
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Description for The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
hardcover. A collection of essays that offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was. It 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. Editor(s): Heile, Bjorn. Num Pages: 276 pages, Includes 13 b&w illustrations and 26 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 756.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754662600
SKU
V9780754662600
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About Bjorn . Ed(S): Heile
Björn Heile is Lecturer in Music and Head of Department at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel as well as numerous other publications, mostly on new music and experimental music theatre.
Reviews for The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
’This collection present[s] ways in which we might (and must) reconsider modernism, enlarging our understanding of its breadth, depth and reach, and projecting a happier future for its reception. It does this through the sharpness of its arguments for the expressive, technical and social achievements of musical modernism. ... this is a collection of top-drawer contributions, intelligently compiled and ... Read more