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, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism proposes a new dialectical ...
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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, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity. This systematic definition of musical modernism introduces readers to theory by Badiou, Zizek and Agamben. Basing his analyses on the music of William Walton, Harper-Scott explores connections between the revolutionary politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and responses to the event of modernism in order to challenge accepted narratives of music history in the twentieth century.
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New. 300 p. Music in Context . 26 Printed music items; 25 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Halftones, black and white. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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New. Contains: Halftones, black & white, Halftones, Tables, black & white, Printed music items. Music in Context . 1 b/w illus. 25 tables 26 music examples. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Good in Good jacket. Jacket is lightly worn, especially along edges. Spine is cocked. Paste-down end leaves are worn at the spine. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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New. Print on demand Contains: Halftones, black & white, Halftones, Tables, black & white, Printed music items. Music in Context . 1 b/w illus. 25 tables 26 music examples. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Like new with instances of marginalia by a knowledgable hand and a moderate amount of very light pencil underlining throughout. Black cloth on board with black and color illustrated dust jacket. xxii, 277 pages: illustrations, music. contents as follows: A ruthless criticism Of everything existing. Modernism as we know it, ideology, and the quilting point--Relationship problems. Modernism, love, and truth; The love of Troilus and Cressida--The revolutionary kernel of reactionary music. Communist modernism; A new community--Afterword: what to do? 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.
