Awards

• Winner of Shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2016.

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Author:   Julian Johnson (Regius Professor of Music, Regius Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780190233273

ISBN 10:   0190233273
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   16 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Including many musical examples and a wealth of references to literature on modernity and music, this refreshing exploration of modern music goes backward and forward, and surrounds music in the present. B. L. Eden, CHOICE

Including many musical examples and a wealth of references to literature on modernity and music, this refreshing exploration of modern music goes backward and forward, and surrounds music in the present. --Choice

Author Information

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.

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