This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and East Asia. Through contributions by both European

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood a

"Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and l

This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich o