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Repeating ourselves : American minimal music as cultural practice /
Where did musical minimalism come from--and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ours...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Where did musical minimalism come from--and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938946 0520938941 1423727584 9781423727583 9780520240360 0520240367 9780520245501 0520245504 1598757857 9781598757859 1282358170 9781282358171 9786612358173 6612358173 |