![]() Any who have been told the unrevised story of the Second Viennese School being the definition of Modern Music and everything else being either regressive or kitsch (the latter including all of what is often called popular music) will find in this telling neither the hero-worship of Schoenberg nor the dismissal of dodecaphony, but a refreshing plurality of taste and an encyclopaedic ability to see connections between apparently disparate repertoires. ![]() Running from Mahler and Strauss to the Velvet Underground the intertwined narratives of politics and music in the last century are given a fresh telling. ![]() I urge you not to be put off by the size of this book: at nearly 550 pages it is undeniably a large volume, but it is engagingly written and I found myself drawn in quickly to the atmospheric depictions of events and suggestive descriptions of people that populate this narrative of music in the twentieth century. ![]()
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