[8] November 12 — MUST MODERN MUSIC HAVE A POLITICS?
Section outline
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Please consult the Socialist Realism in Music module below as preparation for this session.
Assigned reading:
Theodor W. Adorno, "Why is the new art so hard to understand?" (1931), Essays on Music, ed. Richard Leppert, trans. Susan H. Gillespie (2002), 127–134.
Richard Taruskin, "Shostakovich and us," from Shostakovich in Context, ed. Rosamund Bartlett (2000), 1–29.
Additional resource:
There is no obligation whatsoever, but if you're at all curious about the experimental music of the 1920s, you can listen to clips from the module Symphony of Sirens (esp. p. 4) below as well.