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Mavericks and other traditions in American music /

From colonial times, American composers have lived on the fringes of society & defined themselves in large part as outsiders. Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers & explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts & about American soc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broyles, Michael, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • We, the rebels
  • Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes ; The log cabin composer
  • New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy" ; The community of the ultramoderns
  • After the war. New directions : the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism : John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows
  • The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"