1st Edition
Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries
By Ljubica Ilic
Copyright 2010
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music... Read more
Introduction The Limits of the Work, the Limits of the World, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 1 Mirrors and Echoes: Beyond the Confines of Theatrical Space, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 2 The Unutterable Silence: O Word, Thou Word that I Lack, Ljubica Ilic; Chapter 3 The Terror of Desire: Arbitrary Outcomes or the Dei ex Machinis, Ljubica Ilic;
Biography
Ljubica Ilic holds degrees from the University of Arts in Belgrade (BA in musicology) and University of California, Los Angeles (MA and PhD in musicology), where she was a Chancellor’s fellow. Ilic was an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008), and a visiting professor in the department of musicology at UCLA (2008-2009).
'I cannot overemphasize the originality and brilliance of Ljubica Ilic's project. Seventeenth-century music continues to be viewed as an awkward transition between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and her insights shed light not only on music history but on European culture in general: the problems of artistic autonomy, of representation, of subjectivity, of the ethical responsibility of art, of theology. I was continually astonished by the insights she brings forward throughout the book.' Susan McClary, University of California Los Angeles, USA
