Modernist Legacy Essays On Music

This Collection Of Essays Offers A Historical Reappraisal Of What Musical Modernism Was, And What Its Potential For The Present And Future Could Be. It Thus Moves Away From The Binary Oppositions That Have Beset Twentieth-century Music Studies In The Past, Such As Those Between Modernism And Postmodernism, Between Conceptions Of Musical Autonomy And Of Cultural Contingency And Between Formalist-analytical And Cultural-historical Approaches. Focussing Particularly On Music From The 1970s To The 1990s, The Volume Assembles Approaches From Different Perspectives To Music With A Particular Emphasis On A Critical Reassessment Of The Meaning And Function Of The Legacy Of Musical Modernism.