From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious

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.

ISBN:	9780520279360
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	24 Jan 2017
DEWEY:	780.904
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 344
Weight:	626g
Height:	164mm
Width:	237mm
Spine width:	31mm

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