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Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.
List of contents
Preface; 1. Contexts and institutions; 2. Expanded horizons: established composers after 1968; 3. The refusal of habit: Helmut Lachenmann; 4. Music and signs: Wolfgang Rihm; 5. Contemporaries of Lachenmann and Rihm: the younger generation; Epilogue.
About the author
Alastair Williams is Reader in Music at Keele University. He is the author of New Music and the Claims of Modernity (1997) and Constructing Musicology (2001); and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to John Cage (2002) and The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music (2004). He has also published articles in a wide range of music journals, including Music and Letters, Music Analysis and twentieth-century music.
Summary
Alastair Williams provides the first English-language overview of Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm, and considers established figures such as Henze, Kagel and Stockhausen. The book goes on to reveal the impact of the 1968 social movements on music, assesses the renewal of tradition, and addresses the significance of German reunification.
