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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Musique notée : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Johnson, Julian (19..-.... ; compositeur)
Titre(s) : Out of time [Texte imprimé] : music and the making of modernity / Julian Johnson
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (380 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 351-365. Index
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.
Sujet(s) : Esthétique musicale -- Histoire
Civilisation moderne -- Dans la musique
Indice(s) Dewey :
780.1 (23e éd.) = Musique - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-023327-3 (rel.)
EAN 9780190233273
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47639142g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47639142
