Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 - Couverture rigide

Rutherford-Johnson, Tim

 
9780520283145: Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989
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ISBN 10 : 0520283147 ISBN 13 : 9780520283145
Editeur : University of California Press, 2017

Synopsis

"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen."--Alex Ross, The New Yorker

"...an essential survey of contemporary music."--New York Times

"...sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises months of fresh discovery, the main text a fresh new way of navigating the world of sound."--The Wire

2017 Music Book of the Year--Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Music after the Fall 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tim Rutherford-Johnson is a London-based music journalist and critic. He was the contemporary music editor at Grove Music Online and edited the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music. He has taught at Goldsmiths College and Brunel University, and since 2003 he has written about new music for his blog, The Rambler.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520283147
ISBN 13 
9780520283145
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
362
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0520283155 ISBN 13 :  9780520283152
Editeur : University of California Press, 2017
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