The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton

by J.P.E. Harper-Scott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108746837
• ISBN13: 9781108746830
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"