Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939

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BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds

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Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.

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Introduction: Consensus, Resistance and New Music in France Remembering Debussy: Nostalgia and Modernism in interwar France Musical allegiances and factions: Ravel, Satie and the Question of Leadership Polemics and Publicity: Composer-Critic Partnerships Musical continuities: Sonority, Exoticism and Abstraction In Search of the Musical esprit du temps Surface Division, Deep Consensus: Classicism and Secularism and its Challenges Conclusions, Music for the Patrimoine: Remembering Interwar Music in France