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1 Online-Ressource ([ix], 387 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300100450
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0300127898
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1281729809
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9780300100457
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9780300127898
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9781281729804
Inhalt:
From colonial times, American composers have lived on the fringes of society & defined themselves in large part as outsiders. Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers & explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts & about American society itself
Inhalt:
We, the rebels -- Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes ; The log cabin composer -- New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy" ; The community of the ultramoderns -- After the war. New directions : the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism : John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows -- The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Broyles, Michael, 1939- Mavericks and other traditions in American music New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004
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Englisch
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