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The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology.(Book review)
The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. Edited by Arved Ashby. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. [viii, 404 p. ISBN 1-58046-143-3. $75.] Music examples, illustrations, index.
This collection of fifteen essays aims to "develop postmodern approaches to modernist music" (p. 2) as a means by which to reengage a repertory that throughout its history has been anathema to much of the musical public and at times, even the specialist. Central to this task is the conscientious rejection by the collection's authors of those tenants of modernist discourse that served to oppress, willfully or ...
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