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Modernist composers saw themselves as the “avant-garde” or front-line troops working to advance music through their sound experiments. Modernist composers thus began to challenge what was possible to do with music, experimenting with a variety of ways of constructing music. Additionally, the inventions of recorded sound, the telephone, automobiles, and airplanes resulted in major changes to how the world communicated and operated. Then, with Albert Einstein’s (1879-1955) theories of relativity in19, our perceptions of time and space were fundamentally changed. Through his psychoanalytic explorations of the human psyche, Sigmund Freud proposed that humans were irrational, subconscious forces, driven largely by hidden desires and drives. Charles Darwin’s seminal work of evolutionary theory, (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species (1859) challenged religious beliefs concerning how life came to be. Modernism derived great inspiration from the many scientific achievements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not everything, however, was terror and suffering. The political revolutions sparked in the latter half of the 19th century continued, spiraling into military conflicts such as the Franco-Prussian War (1870), the Spanish-American War (1898), and the First World War (1914-1918) which was known at the time as the “Great War” and the “War to end all wars.” Additional major events included the Russian Revolution (1917), the Spanish Flu (1919), the Great Depression (beginning in 1929), the rise of Joseph Stalin as dictator of the Soviet Union (1929-1953), the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany (1933), and the Second World War (1939-1945) which ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.įrom a historical perspective, the sheer amount of death and destruction during these 55 years was unprecedented, and many in the artistic world came to feel that the old ways of representing the human experience were no longer qualified to handle this terrifying new reality. 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.Because Modernism was a reaction to the events of the late 19th century and early 20th century, it’s helpful to understand the great degree of social and political upheaval that was happening during these decades. 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. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Communist modernism A new community - Afterword : what to do? Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernism, love, and truth The love of Troilus and Cressida - The revolutionary kernel of reactionary music. Modernism as we know it, ideology, and the quilting point - Relationship problems.
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Item #174247 ISBN: 9780521765213 contents as follows: A ruthless criticism Of everything existing. Like new with instances of marginalia by a knowledgable hand and a moderate amount of very light pencil underlining throughout. black cloth on board with black and color illustrated dust jacket. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.