| Description |
xii, 348 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1989 and after -- Mediation and the marketplace -- Permission: freedom, choice, and the body -- Fluidity: digital translations, displacements, and journeys -- Mobility: worldwide flows, networks, and archipelagos -- Superabundance: spectacle, scale, and excess -- Loss: ruins, memorials, and documents -- Recovery: gaps between past and present. |
| Summary |
This is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Music -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century.
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Music -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01030444
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Neue Musik. (DE-588)4428235-7
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Politischer Wandel. (DE-588)4175047-0
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe 978-0-520-95904-0 |
| ISBN |
9780520283145 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0520283147 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780520283152 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520283155 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520959040 electronic publication |
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