Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108741736)

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

Author: Tom Perchard, Stephen Graham, Tim Rutherford-Johnson
ISBN-10: 1108741738
ISBN-13: 9781108741736
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2023
Pages: 494
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 1.10d