Perspectives on American Music from 1945 to 1970

ISBN-13: 9780815321446 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 496 str.

James R. Heintze; Michael Saffle

Opis

In 14 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.

Spis treści

Introduction * Electronic Music: An American Voice, Lloyd Ultan * Elliott Carter's Tonal Practice in The Rose Family, Jeremy Beck * Morton Feldman and the Shape of Time, Louis Goldstein * John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 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, Mickey Thomas Terry * The Papers of Emerson Meyers, Bonnie Hedges * 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

O autorze

James R. Heintze