As the back cover states: "The Argument: Modern music is not modern and is rarely music. It represents an attempt to perpetuate a European musical tradition whose technical resources are exhausted, and which no longer has any cultural validity. That it continues to be composed, performed, and discussed represents self-deception by an element of society which refuses to believe that this is true...." First published by Simon and Shuster in 1955. This catalog entry is for the third printing, which was published in 1967 as an Essandess Paperback., ISBN13: B000SHLG76 ISBN10: B000SHLG76 Material Type: paperback