Eduardo De La Fuente

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the history of contemporary or 'new' music in the twentieth-century through the lens of the sociology of modern culture, linking the paradoxical aspects of twentieth-century music to the central processes in modern culture that are analyzed by sociology and social theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415811439
• ISBN-10: 0415811430
• Artikelnr.: 36815166

Autorenporträt

Eduardo De La Fuente is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Modernity, Modernism and Music 2. Myth and Narrative in
Twentieth Century Musical Culture 3. The Structure of Musical Revolutions
4. Music in Max Weber's Sociology of Modernity 5. Modernity in Theodor
Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music 6. Music in Modern Theories of
Communication 7. Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Prophet 8. Igor
Stravinsky: The Composer as Priest 9. Pierre Boulez: The Composer as
Ascetic 10. John Cage: The Composer as Mystic 11. From Avant-Gardism to
Post-Modernism 12. Musical Re-Enchantment?