Vieira de Carvalho, Mario
"New Music" between search for identity and autopoiesis: or, the "Tragedy of Listening"
The so-called New Music in Europe after the Second World War rested on «the ideal of music as autopoiesis... Separated from the life-world and conceived as a self-referential system, New Music should represent not only thelogical achievement of the historical development of European music, but also the superiority of Western musical thought in the more developed countries...over the music cultures of the world... Some European composers rejected this trend and tried to find an alternative to aestheticism by means of political engagement. For instance, the Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-90) explores the dialectic between subject and object... and critique of progress, globalization and anti-imperialistic resistance. In his strategy, in which Gramsci's and Walter Benjamin's thought played an important role, aesthetics became inseparable from politics....».
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Vieira de Carvalho, Mario |
| Subjects |
Musica
Nono, Luigi Benjamin, Walter Identità Collettiva
music
Nono, Luigi Benjamin, Walter Collective identity |
