Twentieth-Century Music in the West - An Introduction

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

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• Autori: Stephen Graham, Stephen (Goldsmiths Graham, Tom Perchard, Tom (Goldsmiths Perchard, Perchard Tom, Holly (Goldsmiths Rogers, Rogers Holly, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Rutherford-Johnson Tim
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108741736
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74173-6
• Dimensioni: 170 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; MUSIC / History & Criticism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music