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August 24, 2009
The (Continuing) Nasty Politics of Modernism
The right wing and often fascist politics of Pound, Elliot and, yes, that fallen aristo Igor Stravinsky fit so nicely with the high modernist philosophy that I must often ask if in attempting to perpetuate some form of the modernist creed whether we are not inadvertently advancing an unpleasant authoritarianism in the musical world. The pseudo-Hegelian historicism has always been a part of modernism. I wonder if we are not doing so even when we pooh-pooh the orchestra as dying remnant of some evil past. Isn't that to fall into the historicist trap; isn't it to assert that we know what the future is and that there is one path to the future and we know what it is?Originally from Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Aug 24, 2009 at 11:29 AM