MUS 15 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Brass Knuckles, Gamelan, Counterpoint
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Music in the 20th and 21st centuries, auner. Debussy was an avid collector of the japanese prints and engravings that gave. when he published estampes, he took great care with the colors and fonts for the title page to make it a luxury object comparable to the japanese-inspired clothing, chic cuisine, and artworks by edouard manet. The widespread interest in exotic cultures exemplifies musil"s systems of happiness and balance . Such ethnographic exhibits helped propagate the racist theories of cultural evolution that underpinned and justified the processes of colonization. Thus while modernity was experienced most directly by people in the urban environments of the developed world, through colonization it had a direct or indirect impact on virtually everyone. The history of western music is full of encounters with exotic styles, but a new attitude toward these musics is a defining characteristic of modernism and modernity at the turn of the 20th century.
