New Music and the Claims of Modernity

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Williams (music, Keele U.) uses the aesthetics of Theodore Adorno and later critical theory to explore the strategies employed by post-1945 new music in the West. Rather than offer comprehensive coverage, he chooses a repertoire that confronts key issues, gravitating towards the work of Pierre Boule