Beschreibung:
In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts.
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.