Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century ― Translated by Wojciech Bokowski

In his history of 20th-century musical modernism, Golab chooses musical structure as its object seen in a cultural context. The work itself is not the focus, therefore, but the cultural values that the work was able to generate in terms of radical novelty or mere change. He draws on his own fields of music theory and music aesthetics to develop the foundations of a general theory of modern music, believing that music historians need to stop slavishly imitating their colleagues in mainstream cultural history, develop a historiography suitable to music, and begin to speak with their own voice. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Maciej Golab is Head of the Department of Musicology and Professor of Musicology at the University of Wroclaw. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century music history and theory, Chopin studies, and methodology of musicological research.