Perspectives on American Music since 1950

by James R. Heintze (Editor)

Overview

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools. In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are both covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135599416
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/02/2024
Series:	Essays in American Music
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

James R. Heintze

Table of Contents

Introduction * Electronic Music: An American Voice, LloydUltan * Elliott Carter's Tonal Practice in The RoseFamily, Jeremy Beck * Morton Feldman and the Shape of Time, Louis Goldstein * John Cage's Concert for Piano andOrchestra, Johanne Rivest * Indeterminate Origins: A Cultural Theory of American Experimental Music, Alex J.Lubet * Louis Armstrong Blasts Little Rock, Arkansas, Michael Meckna * Mary Lou Williams: A Woman's Life in Jazz, Brian Q. Torff * The Premiere of David Diamond's String Quartet No. 10, James R. Heintze * Cultural Perceptions of African-American Organ Literature, MickeyThomas Terry * The Papers of Emerson Meyers, BonnieHedges * Musical Responses to HIV and AIDS, Keith C. Ward * American Choral Music since 1985, David P. DeVenney * Milton Babbitt at Eighty, Andrew Mead * New Orleans Composers of the 1990s, John H. Baron