Decomposition - A Music Manifesto

Andrew Durkin, best known as the leader of the West Coast–based Industrial Jazz Group, is singular for his insistence on asking tough questions about the complexity of our presumptions about music and about listening, especially in the digital age. In this winning and lucid study he explodes the age-old concept of musical composition as the work of individual genius, arguing instead that in both its composition and reception music is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise that comes into being only through mediation. Drawing on a rich variety of examples--Big Jay McNeely’s “Deacon’s Hop,” Biz Markie’s “Alone Again,” George Antheil’s

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Durkin
• Publisher: Pantheon Schocken Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2014
• EAN: 9780307911759
• ISBN: 978-0-307-91175-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 35 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Instrument lessons