Julian Johnson

Out of Time

Music and the Making of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Out of Time explores a bold idea: that western art music of the last four hundred years is better understood through the idea of musical modernity than by the usual periodizations of music history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9780190233273
• ISBN-10: 0190233273
• Artikelnr.: 47863005

Autorenporträt

Julian Johnson is Regius Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously been a Reader in Music at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on music from the 18th century to contemporary music, with a particular focus on Modernism, musical aesthetics, and questions of music's cultural meaning and value. He was for many years an active composer, a background that continues to shape his perspectives as a musicologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mapping musical modernity
1. Being Late
Looking back
Brokenness
Remembering
2. Being Early
Pushing forwards
The temporality of desire
Sounding utopia
3. The Precarious Present
Simultaneity
Boredom
Historicism as modernism
4. Being Everywhere
The space of music
Labyrinths
Technologies of the musical body
5. Being Elsewhere
Music as transport
The metaphysics of restlessness
Re-enchantment
6. Placing the Self
Being nowhere
Hypersubjectivity
Staging the self
7. Like a Language
Disclosure
Discourse
Music as self-critique
8. Le corps sonore
The return of the repressed
Bodies of sound
The grammar of dreams
Bibliography