Music Downtown Writings from the Village Voice - A Roth Family Foundation Book on Music in America
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520229822 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 20 Jan 2006 |
DEWEY: | 780.9747109045 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 326 |
Weight: | 476g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 155mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |