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Repeating ourselves : American minimal music as cultural practice

By Robert Wallace , Fink

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0-520-24036-7, 9780520240360, 9780520245501, 0-520-24550-4, 9780520938946, 0520938941, 9781282358171, 1282358170, 9781423727583, 1423727584, 9781598757859, 1598757857
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3212768 bytes)
Pages
280\297
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Minimal music -- History and criticism. Music -- S

Description

Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.

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