Beschreibung:
Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.
Introduction: Consensus, Resistance and New Music in FranceRemembering Debussy: Nostalgia and Modernism in interwar FranceMusical allegiances and factions: Ravel, Satie and the Question of LeadershipPolemics and Publicity: Composer-Critic PartnershipsMusical continuities: Sonority, Exoticism and AbstractionIn Search of the Musical esprit du tempsSurface Division, Deep Consensus: Classicism and Secularism and its ChallengesConclusions, Music for the Patrimoine: Remembering Interwar Music in France