Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Soci t Musicale Ind pendente of Ravel and his circle, Les Six in the 1920s and Jeune France in 1936, and questions some of the stereotypes that characterise that period. It shows how Stravinsky worked closely with Ravel, Satie and Poulenc, inviting audiences and critics to rethink what it meant to be modern, and how Emile Vuillermoz, L on Vallas...