American composers : dialogues on contemporary music / Edward Strickland.
"American music today exhibits greater vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness than at any other time in U.S. history. Edward Strickland's informal conversations with eleven active composers relate how the new American music established its independence from postwar European serialism and...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1991.
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Summary: | "American music today exhibits greater vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness than at any other time in U.S. history. Edward Strickland's informal conversations with eleven active composers relate how the new American music established its independence from postwar European serialism and the academic hegemony by incorporating elements of native nonclassical music and of once-alien non-Western cultures. Book jacket."--Jacket. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages : portraits) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 11) and index. |