Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520229822)

This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles-including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures-Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.

Author: Kyle Gann
ISBN-10: 0520229827
ISBN-13: 9780520229822
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2006
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2005 pg. 73