Beauty in Music: Conflicting Views in the Modern Age

This book is interdisciplinary in nature and presents the dispute around beauty in art of the last century. It is a synthesis of artistic phenomena and the aesthetic attitudes of composers, taking into account the ideological and social context of music written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The proposed historiographical structure is based on the assumption that diverse artistic phenomena and aesthetic attitudes can be interpreted in relation to the idea of beauty, which in the twentieth century was banished. Jarzêbska presents disputes over the model of musical culture in the interwar period, inspired by the concept of national and progressive music. She also considers issues related to musical life, which was marked in the postwar period by the shadow of the Iron Curtain and around the turn of the second millennium by the philosophy of postmodernism and the phenomenon of rock culture.