Nastasia Khrushcheva: Metamodernity in Music and Beyond, Flexibler Einband

Blurb

Why can a simple melody move us more deeply than a complex musical experiment? How can a meme be both ironic and sincere? And why do we seek a sense of intimacy in endless repetitions, quiet voices and nostalgic images?

Nastasia Khrushcheva explores these questions in *Metamodernism in Music and Beyond*. Her book describes a culture in which longing and scepticism, melancholy and euphoria coexist. She calls this new sensibility metamodernism, tracing its presence in the concert hall as well as in everyday digital life.

From Erik Satie's peculiar simplicity and Arvo Pärt's sacred sound worlds to internet memes and ASMR, Khrushcheva guides readers through familiar and unexpected experiences of listening and looking. Through music by Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov and Simeon ten Holt, she shows how melodies evoke memories, repetition transforms our perception of time, and seemingly banal material acquires unexpected intensity.

A thought-provoking, incisively written book for anyone who loves music and wants to understand its relationship with the sensibility of our age. This English edition brings the Russian original, awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Award and the Andrei Bely Prize, to an international readership.