Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9781138273399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 132 str.

Ljubica ILIC

Opis

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music whose grand narrative, defined by tonality and teleological development, begins in the seventeenth century and ends with twentieth-century modernisms. Seeing musical storytelling as a metaphoric representation of selfhood, and modernity as a historical continuum, Ilic examines the boundaries and relationships between the musical work, the subject, and modern European history.

Recenzje

'I cannot overemphasize the originality and brilliance of Ljubica Ilic's project. Seventeenth-century music continues to be viewed as an awkward transition between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and her insights shed light not only on music history but on European culture in general: the problems of artistic autonomy, of representation, of subjectivity, of the ethical responsibility of art, of theology. I was continually astonished by the insights she brings forward throughout the book.' Susan McClary, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Spis treści

Introduction The Limits of the Work, the Limits of the World, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 1 Mirrors and Echoes: Beyond the Confines of Theatrical Space, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 2 The Unutterable Silence: O Word, Thou Word that I Lack, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 3 The Terror of Desire: Arbitrary Outcomes or the Dei ex Machinis, Ljubica Ilic;

O autorze

Ljubica Ilic holds degrees from the University of Arts in Belgrade (BA in musicology) and University of California, Los Angeles (MA and PhD in musicology), where she was a Chancellor’s fellow. Ilic was an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008), and a visiting professor in the department of musicology at UCLA (2008-2009).