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American music in the twentieth century
Title:
American music in the twentieth century
Author:
Gann, Kyle.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1997]

©1997
Physical Description:
xvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Prelude : What is American music? -- Forefathers -- Ultramodernism-- the 1920s -- Populism-- the 1930s -- Experimentalism -- Atonality and European influence -- John Cage and the New York School revolution -- Post-Cage conceptualism -- Minimalism -- New tonality 1-- the new Romanticism -- Electronic music -- Interfaces with rock and jazz -- New tonality 2-- postminimalism -- Totalism and the 1990s.
ISBN:
9780028646558
Format :
Book