From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious (eBook)

Seth Brodsky (Autor)

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2017
368 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96650-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage. Instead one finds Rostropovich playing Bach at Checkpoint Charlie; or Bernstein changing ';Joy' to ';Freedom' in Beethoven's Ninth; or David Hasselhoff lip-synching ';Looking for Freedom' to thousands on New Year's Eve. But if such spectacles claim to master their historical moment, New Music unconsciously takes the role of analyst. In so doing, it restages earlier scenes of modernism. As world politics witnesses a turning away from the possibility of revolution, musical modernism revolves in place, performing century-old tasks of losing, failing, and beginning again, in preparation for a revolution to come.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “But supposing He does not come”

PART ONE. FREE
1. Drei Phantasiestücke (1)
2. Fantasy & Fantasy (1)
3. Drei Phantasiestücke (2)
4. Fantasy & Fantasy (2)
5. Drei Phantasiestücke (3)

PART TWO. NEW
6. Freiheitsdreck (1)
7. Music & New Music (1)
8. Fantasy & Fantasy (3)
9. Freiheitsdreck (2)
10. Freiheitsdreck (3)

PART THREE. AGAIN
11. Repetition (1)
12. Repetition (2)
13. Repetition (3)
14. Repetition (4)
15. Music & New Music (2)

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1980s • 1989 • Analysis • Bach • Beethoven • Bernstein • Composer • Composers • Composition • Europe • European History • european music • european new music • Global • history of music • international • Lacan • Lacanian • modern music • music • musical composition • Musical History • musical innovation • Musical Modernism • musical periods • musical revolution • Musical styles • Music Genres • Music History • music scholar • Music Trends • New Music • Politics • Revolution • Songwriting • World Music
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96650-3 / 0520966503
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96650-5 / 9780520966505