Music downtown : writings from The Village voice
Kyle Gann
Bok · Engelsk · 2006
| Utgitt | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , 2006
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| Omfang | XIX, 314 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Indhold: Interviews ; Music and/versus society ; Musical politics ; Aesthetics ; Reflections on books, figures, and events ; Concert reviews ; Passings. - This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles--including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures--Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come [Publisher description]. - 399 kr
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| ISBN | 0-520-22981-9 : 399 kr
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| Hylleplass | 780.9747 GAN
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