Joanna Bullivant, Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc
Radical politics and radical aesthetics: how closely are they linked? This question is spectral to Joanna Bullivant’s excellent book on the communist composer Alan Bush, in my reading. Does a composer with a strong commitment to radical social change, such as Bush, need to shock and/or challenge th...
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Transposition
2018
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Radical politics and radical aesthetics: how closely are they linked? This question is spectral to Joanna Bullivant’s excellent book on the communist composer Alan Bush, in my reading. Does a composer with a strong commitment to radical social change, such as Bush, need to shock and/or challenge the audience with experimentation, dissonance and/or ostentatious novelty of some kind? Alternatively, are there other (and perhaps more subtle, nuanced) ways of navigating the aesthetic path whilst ... |
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