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American Music In The Twentieth Century

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Author : Kyle Gann
language : en
Publisher: Schirmer
Release Date : 1997

American Music In The Twentieth Century written by Kyle Gann and has been published by Schirmer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Education categories.

American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures.

Struggling To Define A Nation

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Author : Charles Hiroshi Garrett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-10-12

Struggling To Define A Nation written by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-12 with Music categories.

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres—including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music—and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.

All American Music

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Author : John Rockwell
language : en
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1983

All American Music written by John Rockwell and has been published by New York : Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Music categories.

The author, director of the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, wrote about music of all kinds for The New York Times for twenty years. Here he delineates the heritage, actuality, and potential of American music, demonstrating not only the possibility but the necessity of dealing with artists as seemingly unrelated as Elliott Carter and David Byrne, Milton Babbitt and Laurie Anderson, John Cage and Neil Young, Philip Glass and Ornette Coleman. In twenty chapters that each bring to life the work of a specific composer, Rockwell tells the whole story of American musical composition in our time.

Our Contemporary Composers

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Author : John Tasker Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943

Our Contemporary Composers written by John Tasker Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Composers categories.

Reflections On American Music

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Author : College Music Society
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2000

Reflections On American Music written by College Music Society and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Music categories.

The twentieth century - also called the "American century" by thousands of historians and artists around the world - has brought with it untold musical innovations: the popularization of ragtime and the blues, the birth and dissemination of jazz, gospel, and rock, the transmission via radio of music around the world, the transformation of sound recording from primitive cylinders and shellac disks to digital sound, the incorporation of film music into motion pictures, the rise (and decline) of twelve-tone techniques among American composers, the widespread use of music in advertising, the institution of programs that have made music education available to children throughout the United States. And so on. This book presents both the opinions of more than forty historians, theorists, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, librarians, archivists, ethnomusicologists, music-business executives, schoolteachers, and experts of other kinds on the progress of music during the last hundred years and speculations by these individual son what may be in store for us in the opening decades of the "new millennium" and the twenty-first century.

Our Contemporary Composers

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Author : John Tasker Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948

Perspectives On American Music 1900 1950

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Author : Michael Saffle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12

Perspectives On American Music 1900 1950 written by Michael Saffle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Music categories.

The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Contributions consider the rise and triumph of popular forms such as jazz, swing, and blues, as well as the contributions to art music of composers such as Ives, Cage, and Copland, among others. American contributions to music technology and dissemination, and the role of these forms in extending the audience for music, is also a focus.

Struggling To Define A Nation

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Author : Charles Hiroshi Garrett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-10-12

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

Concert Music Of The Twentieth Century

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Author : Mark A. Radice
language : en
Publisher: Pearson
Release Date : 2003

Concert Music Of The Twentieth Century written by Mark A. Radice and has been published by Pearson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.

Concert Music of the Twentieth Century is about "concert music"--music for contemplation rather than for atmosphere. The repertoire discussed in these pages was written by composers with something important to say and with skills to do so. Many of the works discussed tie in with a long-standing, Western European tradition of art music, but an equal voice is given to culturally and ethnically diverse composers active during the past several decades. Radice provides data about the pieces, the composers who wrote them, and the contexts in which they originated. Our understanding and evaluation of music is a dynamic process and one that is subject to change. Music only has meaning within its social contexts, and these are expanding daily. Many non-Western nations have long-standing musical traditions and practices that have entered into the Western mainstream just as Western practices and traditions have influenced the musical cultures of the world to produce new and exciting possibilities for music making. Diversity has been a key element in the selection of topics for discussion, and the examples included here can serve as gateways for other investigations by interested readers. This book is a survey presenting a broad array of representative works. The personalities explored include composers, performers, theorists, teachers, and organizations. In many cases, the information comes directly from composers whom the author has interviewed. The discussions in this book demonstrate that the world of contemporary music is a fascinating one that offers rich rewards to those interested in understanding the vibrant dynamics of concert music.

The Global Politics Of Jazz In The Twentieth Century

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Author : Yoshiomi Saito
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-28

The Global Politics Of Jazz In The Twentieth Century written by Yoshiomi Saito and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with Music categories.

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sent around the world – including to an array of Communist countries – as "jazz ambassadors" in order to mitigate the negative image associated with domestic racial problems. While many non-Americans embraced the Americanism behind this jazz diplomacy without question, others criticized American domestic and foreign policies while still appreciating jazz – thus jazz, despite its popularity, also became a medium for expressing anti-Americanism. This book examines the development of jazz outside America, including across diverse historical periods and geographies – shedding light on the effectiveness of jazz as an instrument of state power within a global political context. Saito examines jazz across a wide range of regions, including America, Europe, Japan and Communist countries. His research also draws heavily upon a variety of sources, primary as well as secondary, which are accessible in these diverse countries: all had their unique and culturally specific domestic jazz scenes, but also interacted with each other in an interesting dimension of early globalization. This comparative analysis on the range of unique jazz scenes and cultures offers a detailed understanding as to how jazz has been interpreted in various ways, according to the changing contexts of politics and society around it, often providing a basis for criticizing America itself. Furthering our appreciation of the organic relationship between jazz and global politics, Saito reconsiders the uniqueness of jazz as an exclusively "American music." This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, the history of popular music, and global politics. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

American Music In The Twentieth Century

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