The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
(Part of the Music in Context Series)
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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...
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"
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