The Aesthetics of Survival
Subtitle: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music
Edition: Rev Exp edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: January 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780472030262
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; 20th century; Sociology; Music/Songbooks; Social Science; History & Criticism - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Music; Popular Culture - General
First sentence: Human consciousness and thought in the twentieth century have discovered the essential irrationality of the premises on which they are based.