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Book SynopsisModernism has remained a pivotal focus of debate in musicology well into the twenty-first century, and recent critiques have failed to dampen its resilience. However, the picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified. As well as new approaches to areas that are relatively familiar, this book explores the less established topics
Table of ContentsIntroduction Björn Heile and Charles Wilson
Part I Foundations
1: The Birth of Modernism – Out of the Spirit of Comedy James R. Currie
2: What Was Contemporary Music? The New, the Modern and the Contemporary in the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Sarah Collins
3: Institutions, Artworlds, New Music Martin Iddon
4: Modernism and History David J. Code
5: Musical Modernity, the Beautiful and the Sublime Edward Campbell
Part II Positions
6: Reactive Modernism J. P. E. Harper-Scott
7: Musical Modernism, Global: Comparative Observations Björn Heile
8: Musical Modernism and Exile: Cliché as Hermeneutic Tool Eva Moreda Rodríguez
9: Modernism: The People’s Music? Robert Adlington
10: Modernism for and of the Masses? On Popular Modernisms Stephen Graham
11: Times Like the Present: De-limiting Music in the Twenty-First Century Charles Wilson
12: The Composer as Communication Theorist M.J. Grant
13: How Does Modernist Music Make You Feel? Between Subjectivity and Affect Trent Leipert
Part III Practices
14: Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Structure and Expression in John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Thomas Adès Alastair Williams
15: Foundations and Fixations: Continuities in British Musical Modernism Arnold Whittall
16: The Balinese Moment in the Montreal New Music Scene as a Regional Modernism Jonathan Goldman
17: Vers une écriture liminale: Serialism, Spectralism and Écriture in the Transitional Music of Gérard Grisey Liam Cagney
18: Contemporary Opera and the Failure of Language Amy Bauer
19: ‘Es klang so alt und war doch so neu!’: Modernist Operatic Culture through the Prism of Staging 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' Mark Berry
20: The Modernism of the Mainstream: An Early Twentieth-Century Ideology of Violin Playing Stefan Knapik
