The Routledge research companion to modernism in music / edited by Björn Heile and Charles Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heile, Björn, editor.

Wilson, Charles, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Music).

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 518 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Modernism in music

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the `new musicology'. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the `contemporary', and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a `popular modernism', a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.

Contents:

Part 1: Foundations. The birth of modernism : out of the spirit of comedy / James R. Currie ; What was contemporary music? The new, the modern and the contemporary in the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) / Sarah Collins ; Institutions, artworlds, new music / Martin Iddon ; Modernism and history / David J. Code ; Musical modernity, the beautiful and the sublime / Edward Campbell

Part 2. Positions. Reactive modernism / J. P. E. Harper-Scott ; Musical modernism, global : comparative observations / Björn Heile ; Musical modernism and exile : cliché as hermeneutic tool / Eva Moreda Rodríguez ; Modernism : the people's music? / Robert Adlington ; Modernism for and of the masses? On popular modernisms / Stephen Graham ; Times like the present : de-limiting music in the twenty-first century / Charles Wilson ; The composer as communication theorist / M.J. Grant ; How does modernist music make you feel? Between subjectivity and affect / Trent Leipert

Part 3. Practices. Between modernism and postmodernism : structure and expression in John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Thomas Adès / Alastair Williams ; Foundations and fixations : continuities in British musical modernism / Arnold Whittall ; The Balinese moment in the Montreal new music scene as a regional modernism / Jonathan Goldman ; Vers une écriture liminale : serialism, spectralism and écriture in the transitional music of Gérard Grisey / Liam Cagney ; Contemporary opera and the failure of language / Amy Bauer ; Es klang so alt und doch war so neu! : modernist operatic culture through the prism of staging Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Mark Berry ; The modernism of the mainstream: an early twentieth-century ideology of violin playing / Stefan Knapik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472470409

1472470400

OCLC:

1022979491