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

The first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism and its transnational diasporic network of composers, musicians, and institutions.

Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become neces

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song –

Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a major player on the stage of Western musi