Perspectives on American Music since 1950

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction * Electronic Music: An American Voice, LloydUltan * Elliott Carter's Tonal Practice in The RoseFamily, Jeremy Beck * Morton Feldman and the Shape of Time, Louis Goldstein * John Cage's Concert for Piano andOrchestra, Johanne Rivest * Indeterminate Origins: A Cultural Theory of American Experimental Music, Alex J.Lubet * Louis Armstrong Blasts Little Rock, Arkansas, Michael Meckna * Mary Lou Williams: A Woman's Life in Jazz, Brian Q. Torff * The Premiere of David Diamond's String Quartet No. 10, James R. Heintze * Cultural Perceptions of African-American Organ Literature, MickeyThomas Terry * The Papers of Emerson Meyers, BonnieHedges * Musical Responses to HIV and AIDS, Keith C. Ward * American Choral Music since 1985, David P. DeVenney * Milton Babbitt at Eighty, Andrew Mead * New Orleans Composers of the 1990s, John H. Baron

Über den Autor / die Autorin

James R. Heintze

Zusammenfassung

In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the US.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: James R. Heintze (Herausgeber), Heintze James R. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780815321446
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2144-6
• Seiten: 496
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Serie: Essays in American Music
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; USA, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Art music, orchestral and formal music, post-world war II;musical culture