The Way of the Moderns - Antoni Piza
Six Perspectives on Modernism in Music
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The Way of the Moderns' gathers the talks organized by the Barry S. Brook Center of Music Research and Documentation that took place from 2012 to 2016 at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).0Exploring the concept of musical modernism from many different perspectives - including the audience?s often initial rejection; the dominance of popular genres; the blurring of musical genres and categories; the alleged incapacity of modernism to express feelings and its intellectual aloofness; the struggle for an audience in times of a distracting attention economy; the transition from modernist to postmodernist aesthetics; the multicultural and collaborative aspects of many recent musical creations; and the need for questioning the ethics of musical works - they present a non-systematic and yet insightful assessment of some of the crucial issues around contemporary music. The texts address the changing consumption, creation, contexts, and valuations of today?s concert music and, at the same tim...
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2022Uitgever: Brepols Publishers300 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503597734ISBN-13: 9782503597737Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary Exploring the concept of musical modernism from many different perspectives?including the audience's often initial rejection; the dominance of popular genres; the blurring of musical genres and categories; the alleged incapacity of modernism to express feelings and its intellectual aloofness; the struggle for an audience in times of a distracting attention economy; the transition from modernist to postmodernist aesthetics; the multicultural and collaborative aspects of many recent musical creations...
