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The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by J. P. Harper-Scott


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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, 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. 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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  • Title The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
  • Author J. P. Harper-Scott
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2012-08-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780521765213 / 0521765218
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.9 in (24.64 x 17.27 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
  • Library of Congress subjects Modernism (Music), Music - 20th century - Philosophy and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012015415
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.904

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