Music in the Twentieth Century

a welcome reissue of the book ... Above all, Experimental Music is a useful source book for a period of radicalism in musical practice in which the rule was to break the rules — Music Teacher More…

a much needed guide to a fascinating aspect of European culture ... it is particularly welcome to have his findings presented in the form of a single extended account ... a useful and approachable... — Music and Letters More…

Crammed with ... source material out of the BBC's capacious archives, this book offers a major contribution to the history of music in 20th-century Britain — BBC Music Magazine More…

It is an intelligently written ... study which assembles a great deal of contemporary thinking on the issue of modernism in the early 1950s ... Carroll's own reflections are well-considered... — Musical Times More…

Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century is a thought-provoking read and written in an engaging and sometimes compelling style — Musical Times More…

Crammed with ... source material out of the BBC's capacious archives, this book offers a major contribution to the history of music in 20th-century Britain — BBC Music Magazine More…

Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century is a thought-provoking read and written in an engaging and sometimes compelling style — Musical Times More…

an indispensable and meticulous survey — Musical Times More…