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Author: Cole Gagne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 576
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America's foremost composers 'sound off' on musicians, critics, audiences, publishers, musical education, orchestras, and even fellow composers. Biographical profiles of the composers and complete catalogs of their compositions (with publication information) serve as invaluable reference tools.
Author: Cole Gagne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 576
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America's foremost composers 'sound off' on musicians, critics, audiences, publishers, musical education, orchestras, and even fellow composers. Biographical profiles of the composers and complete catalogs of their compositions (with publication information) serve as invaluable reference tools.
Author: Amy C. Beal Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520401271 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for dance, theater, and film, and, eventually, choreographer. Forging her own path after briefly studying with John Cage and Edgard Varèse, Dlugoszewski tackled the musical issues of her time. She expanded sonic resources, invented instruments, brought new focus to timbre and texture, collaborated with artists across disciplines, and incorporated spiritual, psychological, and philosophical influences into her work. Remembered today almost solely as the musical director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dlugoszewski's compositional output, writings on aesthetics, creative relationships, and graphic poetry deserve careful examination on their own terms within the history of American experimental music.
Author: Christine Ammer Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781574670615 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 388
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Examines the contributions of women instrumentalists, composers, teachers, and conductors to American music, and suggests why they have gone unnoticed in the past.
Author: Kimberly Hannon Teal Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520303717 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 218
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The social connotation of jazz in American popular culture has shifted dramatically since its emergence in the early twentieth century. Once considered youthful and even rebellious, jazz music is now a firmly established American artistic tradition. As jazz in American life has shifted, so too has the kind of venue in which it is performed. In Jazz Places, Kimberly Hannon Teal traces the history of jazz performance from private jazz clubs to public, high-art venues often associated with charitable institutions. As live jazz performance has become more closely tied to nonprofit institutions, the music's heritage has become increasingly important, serving as a means of defining jazz as a social good worthy of charitable support. Though different jazz spaces present jazz and its heritage in various and sometimes conflicting terms, ties between the music and the past play an important role in defining the value of present-day music in a diverse range of jazz venues, from the Village Vanguard in New York to SFJazz on the West Coast to Preservation Hall in New Orleans.
Author: Michael Broyles Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300127898 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 397
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From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.
Author: Cisco Bradley Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478024011 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 245
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In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene’s social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Building on the neighborhood’s punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, postpunk, and noise musicians and groups---from Mary Halvorson, Zs, and Nate Wooley to Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, and Darius Jones---produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York’s experimental culture. In 2005, New York’s rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn and in Queens. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; he helps readers better understand the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere.
Author: Kenneth Gloag Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521151570 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 223
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What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.
Author: Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9780754604617 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 326
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This book is the most definitive attempt to date to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s to the present day. Using a wealth of primary material, it also explores currently relevant issues in gender and technology. Drawing out the relationships between composers and their working environments, and between teachers and students, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses the contribution of women composers to electroacoustic music. The book includes a bibliography and discography covering the work of ninety composers.
Author: Richard Taruskin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199795932 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 609
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The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Late Twentieth Century is the final installment of the set, covering the years from the end of World War II to the present. In these pages, Taruskin illuminates the great compositions of recent times, offering insightful analyses of works by Aaron Copland, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, among many others. He also looks at the impact of electronic music and computers, the rise of pop music and rock 'n' roll, the advent of postmodernism, and the contemporary music of Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, and John Adams. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.
Author: Cole Gagne
Author: Cole Gagne
Author: Amy C. Beal
Author: Christine Ammer
Author: Kimberly Hannon Teal
Author: Yayoi Uno Everett
Author: Michael Broyles
Author: Cisco Bradley
Author: Kenneth Gloag
Author: Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
Author: Richard Taruskin