Ravel the Decadent - Puri, Michael J. (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, PA)

Ravel the Decadent offers a bold new perspective on the music of Maurice Ravel by locating its aesthetic origins in the French Decadence and demonstrating this influence across the length of his oeuvre. The notions of memory, sublimation, and desire are invoked to delineate the Decadent profile of this music.