Composers in the Industrial Age
By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor
For those who hadn't grasped the fact before, the final spasms of World War I made it impossible to ignore how completely the modern machine had altered human existence. It lofted people into the skies, sped them from city to city, put shoes on the barefoot, housed the homeless, and automated mass death on the battlefield. Composers reacted to this rush of electrically generated change with admiration and fear, and with a fresh appreciation for… more »