Author: Harper-Scott, J.P.E.
Title: The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism
Description: Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Hardcover. black cloth on board with black and color illustrated dust jacket. xxii, 277 pages : illustrations, music. contents as follows: A ruthless criticism Of everything existing. Modernism as we know it, ideology, and the quilting point -- Relationship problems. Modernism, love, and truth ; The love of Troilus and Cressida -- The revolutionary kernel of reactionary music. Communist modernism ; A new community -- Afterword : what to do? 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. Like new with instances of marginalia by a knowledgable hand and a moderate amount of very light pencil underlining throughout .

Keywords: ; Modernist Music ; ;


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