The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
Title | The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music PDF eBook |
Author | Bj Heile |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351542400 |
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 new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.
Inventing American Modernism
Title | Inventing American Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jill E. Pearlman |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780813926025 |
"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. - She offers a crucial missing piece to the story - and to the history of modern architecture - by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school's dean and founder."--BOOK JACKET.
The Modernist Imagination
Title | The Modernist Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Jay |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781845454289 |
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
American Women Modernists
Title | American Women Modernists PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Henri |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Modernism (Art) |
ISBN | 9780813536842 |
The seven essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School to recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era.
The Modernist Legacy
Title | The Modernist Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Björn Heile |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | MUSIC |
ISBN | 9781315085876 |
"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 new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways."--Provided by publisher.
The Failure of Modernism
Title | The Failure of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan Sweetman |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780966922615 |
The contributors to The Failure of Modernism are influenced by the view that modernism has failed, and most of the essays attempt to critique specific features of modernism, often from a more traditional perspective. Modernism in philosophy is characterized by skepticism and anti-realism in epistemology, and by relativism in ethics and politics.
Modernist Anthropology
Title | Modernist Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Manganaro |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400861411 |
Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "science" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called "text-making." This collection of essays reflects the ongoing cross-fertilization between literary criticism and anthropology. Focusing on texts written or influenced by anthropologists between 1900 and 1945, the work relates current perspectives on anthropology's discursive nature to the literary period known as "Modernism.". The essays, each demonstrating anthropology's profound influence on this important cultural movement, are organized according to discourse type: from the comparativist text of Frazer, to the ethnographies of Boas, Benedict, Mead, and Hurston, and on to the surrealist experiments of the College de Sociologie. Meanwhile the book's orientation shifts from essays that approach anthropology from the vantage points of literariness and textual power to those that contemplate what bearing the junction of cultural theory and anthropology can have upon present and future social institutions. In addition to the editor, contributors include Vincent Crapanzano, Deborah Gordon, Richard Handler, Arnold Krupat, Francesco Loriggio, Michele Richman, Marty Roth, Marilyn Strathern, Robert Sullivan, John B. Vickery, and Steven Webster. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.