Perspectives on American Music since 1950

List of contents

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

About the author

James R. Heintze

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: James R. Heintze (Editor), Heintze James R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780815321446
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2144-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Essays in American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; 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