Author: Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths, University...

Title: Twentieth-Century Music in the West...

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 494

Release Date: 0000-00-00

Details: This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

EAN: 9781108741736

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.61 Inches, Length: 6.69 Inches, Weight: 1.984160358 Pounds, Width: 1.12 Inches