Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths, University of London), Stephen Graham (Goldsmiths, University of London), Tim Rutherford-Johns
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...
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 ...
