Quilting Points of Musical Modernism - Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton

J. P. E. Harper-Scott's book proposes a new theory of musical modernism, bringing contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation. It explores the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political ideas and provides a critique of modern music histories.

List of contents

Preface; Part I. A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: 1. Modernism as we know it, ideology, and the quilting point; Part II. Relationship Problems: 2. Modernism, love, and truth; 3. The love of Troilus and Cressida; Part III. The Revolutionary Kernel of Reactionary Music: 4. Communist modernism; 5. A new community; Afterword: what to do?

About the author

J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Reader in Musicology and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on Elgar, Wagner, Britten and symphonic music and opera of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his books include Elgar Studies (edited with Julian Rushton), An Introduction to Music Studies (edited with Jim Samson) and Edward Elgar, Modernist. His work has strong intersections with continental philosophy and psychoanalysis (Heidegger, Badiou, Žižek and Lacan) and has increasingly come to espouse an explicitly Leftist perspective.

Summary

J. P. E. Harper-Scott's book proposes a new theory of musical modernism, bringing contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation. It explores the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political ideas and provides a critique of modern music histories.

Product details

• Authors: J. P. E. Harper-Scott, J. P. E. (Royal Holloway Harper-Scott, Harper-Scott J. P. E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108746830
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74683-0
• No. of pages: 299
• Series: Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Music, MUSIC / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music