Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
ISBN-13:
9780415962087
ISBN-10:
0415962080
Author:
Eduardo de la Fuente
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Hardcover
182 pages
Category:
History & Criticism
,
Music
,
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780415962087
ISBN-10:
0415962080
Author:
Eduardo de la Fuente
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Hardcover
182 pages
Category:
History & Criticism
,
Music
,
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Sociology
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Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity (Routledge Advances in Sociology) (ISBN-13: 9780415962087 and ISBN-10: 0415962080), written by authors
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In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the ‘sacred’ in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for ‘re-enchantment’ have not completely disappeared. Through an analysis of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Cage, 'the author shows that the twentieth century composer often adopted an artistic personality akin to Max Weber’s religious types of the prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity advances a cultural sociology of modernity and shows that twentieth century musical culture often involved the adoption of ‘apocalyptic’ temporal narratives, a commitment to ‘musical revolution’, a desire to explore the limits of noise and sound, and, finally, redemption through the rediscovery of tonality. This book is essential reading for those interested in cultural sociology, sociological theory, music history, and modernity/modernism studies.
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