| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 480 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1. Histories. Place and space, local and global ; Modernism ; Postmodernism ; Canons -- Part 2. Techniques and technologies. Work and notation ; Rhythm and time ; Harmony ; Instruments -- Part 3. Mediation. Recording and production ; Copyright and the music industry ; States and markets ; Music and the Moving Image -- Part 4. Identities. Gender and sexuality ; Race and ethnicity ; Audiences, class and consumption ; Centres and peripheries |
| Summary |
"Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Béla Bartók, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartók tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his ultramodern serialist work was quite a different proposition to Kirchner's own"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation
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Music trade -- History -- 20th century
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Music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Music.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music trade.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perchard, Tom, 1976- author.
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Graham, Stephen (Musicologist), author.
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Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, author
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Rogers, Holly (Professor of music), author.
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| LC no. |
2021059609 |
| ISBN |
9781108680899 |
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1108680895 |
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