Musical Modernism in Global Perspective
Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

The first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism and its transnational diasporic network of composers, musicians, and institutions.

Björn Heile (Author)

9781009491709, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 May 2024

286 pages
25 x 17.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.66 kg

In the first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism, Björn Heile proposes a novel theory according to which musical modernism is constituted by a global diasporic network of composers, musicians and institutions. In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this book overcomes the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts, focusing instead on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions. Key topics include migration, the transnational reception and transfer of musical works and ideas, institutions such as the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and composers who are rarely discussed in Western academia, such as the Nigerian-born Akin Euba and the Korean-German Younghi Pagh-Paan. Influenced by the interdisciplinary notion of 'entangled histories', Heile critiques established dichotomies, all the while highlighting the unequal power relations on which the existing global order is founded.

List of illustrations
Note on the text
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Rethinking the Historiography of Musical Modernism: 1. Echoes of the rite in Latin-American music and literature
2. Exile, migration and mobility
3. Institutionalised internationalism: the International Society for Contemporary Music
Part II. Two Case Studies: 4. Akin Euba: African art music, intercultural composition and creative ethnomusicology
5. Younghi Pagh-Paan: 'composer rooted in an Asian thought-world'
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6]