Lateness and Modernism - Untimely Ideas About Music, Literature Politics in Interwar Britain

Examines the role of musical figures within 'late modernism', presenting a new understanding of the politics and aesthetics of lateness.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The afterlife of a 'Beaten Ghost'; 2. Sketch of a milieu: impasse and lateness; 3. Impersonality and vividness; 'Le Gai Savaire', Philip Heseltine and D. H. Lawrence; 4. Modernism, democracy and the politics of lateness: Kaikhosru Sorabji and the new age; 5. Cycles, rotation and the image: Cecil Gray's music history and H. D.'s Imagism

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sarah Collins is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott (2013); and editor of Music and Victorian Liberalism (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Zusammenfassung

Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections between the activities, attitudes and ideas of musical and literary figures in Britain. The book will appeal to readers interested in musical modernism, literary modernism and the politics of interwar Britain.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah Collins, Sarah (University of Western Australia Collins, Collins Sarah
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108481496
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48149-6
• Seiten: 186
• Serie: Music Since 1900
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Schule und Lernen > Schulbücher Allgemeinbildende Schulen; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, MUSIC / General, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Theory of music & musicology, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology