Musical Modernism in Global Perspective - Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

Informationen zum Autor Björn Heile is Professor of Music (post-1900) at the University of Glasgow. Among his previous books are The Music of Mauricio Kagel (2006), The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (editor, 2009), Watching Jazz (co-editor, 2016) and The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music (co-editor, 2019). Klappentext "In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts"-- Zusammenfassung In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Note on the text; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Rethinking the Historiography of Musical Modernism: 1. Echoes of the rite in Latin-American music and literature; 2. Exile, migration and mobility; 3. Institutionalised internationalism: the International Society for Contemporary Music; Part II. Two Case Studies: 4. Akin Euba: African art music, intercultural composition and creative ethnomusicology; 5. Younghi Pagh-Paan: 'composer rooted in an Asian thought-world'; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Bjorn Heile, Björn Heile, Bjorn (University of Glasgow) Heile
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009491709
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949170-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; World, MUSIC / General, English, Asia, 20th Century, Africa, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, World Music, Theory of music & musicology, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Other global and regional music styles, Theory of music and musicology, For higher / tertiary / university education, Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"