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Out of Time - Music and the Making of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Out of Time - Music and the Making of Modernity (Hardcover)
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What does music have to say about modernity? How can this
apparently unworldly art tell us anything about modern life? In Out
of Time, author Julian Johnson begins from the idea that it can,
arguing that music renders an account of modernity from the inside,
a history not of events but of sensibility, an archaeology of
experience. If music is better understood from this broad
perspective, our idea of modernity itself is also enriched by the
specific insights of music. The result is a rehearing of modernity
and a rethinking of music - an account that challenges ideas of
linear progress and reconsiders the common concerns of music, old
and new. If all music since 1600 is modern music, the similarities
between Monteverdi and Schoenberg, Bach and Stravinsky, or
Beethoven and Boulez, become far more significant than their
obvious differences. Johnson elaborates this idea in relation to
three related areas of experience - temporality, history and
memory; space, place and technology; language, the body, and sound.
Criss-crossing four centuries of Western culture, he moves between
close readings of diverse musical examples (from the madrigal to
electronic music) and drawing on the history of science and
technology, literature, art, philosophy, and geography. Against the
grain of chronology and the usual divisions of music history,
Johnson proposes profound connections between musical works from
quite different times and places. The multiple lines of the
resulting map, similar to those of the London Underground, produce
a bewildering network of plural connections, joining Stockhausen to
Galileo, music printing to sound recording, the industrial
revolution to motivic development, steam trains to waltzes. A
significant and groundbreaking work, Out of Time is essential
reading for anyone interested in the history of music and
modernity.
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