The Politburo of Music

Modernity in music is a multi-faceted and complex phenomenon. The much used word ’modernism’ is also a catch-all definition which leaves questions still hanging in the air. It is a word, like ’socialism’ or ’spirituality’ that can easily be hijacked by partisan voices who then claim ownership of it and thereafter imbue it with their own narrow, specific, pointed, sectarian and self-justifying aura.