Music in Context The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism, (Hardcover)

Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement.

Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets.

Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic and even unnatural.

Drawing extensively on the philosophy of Heidegger and Badiou, Quilting Points proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity.