Twentieth-century music in the West : an introduction /
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, Tech...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2022). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9781108680899 (ebook) |
