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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2004]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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!"