We Have Always Been Minimalist (eBook)

The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style

Christophe Levaux (Autor)

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2020
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96808-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Rising out of the American art music movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, minimalism shook the foundations of the traditional constructs of classical music, becoming one of the most important and influential trends of the twentieth century. The emergence of minimalism sparked an active writing culture around the controversies, philosophies, and forms represented in the music’s style and performance, and its defenders faced a relentless struggle within the music establishment and beyond. Focusing on how facts about music are constructed, negotiated, and continually remodeled, We Have Always Been Minimalist retraces the story of these battles that—from pure fiction to proven truth—led to the triumph of minimalism. Christophe Levaux’s critical analysis of literature surrounding the origins and transformations of the stylistic movement offers radical insights and a unique new history.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. 1960: Before Minimalism
2. Taking Root in Modernity: New Music
3. Transcribing Music: New York Avant-Gardists and Monotonality
4. 1967: Giants?
5. Creating Genres: The Theatre of Mixed Means and Dream Music 
6. Taking Sides over a New Medium: Electronic Music
7. The New York Hypnotic School: Founding a Movement
8. Untying the Bonds: Process Music
9. Transfiguring Experimental Music: Minimal Music
10. 1975: The Emergence of Minimalism 
11. Fighting or Laying Down Arms: Music with Roots in the Aether and Simplicity
12. Persevering: Systems
13. Giving Up Ground; Retaking It: Minimal Music 
14. Subscribing to an Idea: A New Current and Modern Music
15. Disrupting the Status Quo: American Minimal Music
16. Going beyond Modernity: Jameson and Lyotard
17. Opening the Borders: Popular Music
18. 1984: The Spread of Minimalism 
19. Confirming an Established Fact: Perspectives of New Music
20. Furthering the Fight: New Sounds
21. 1994: The Arrival of Minimalism
22. In Conquest of the Twenty-First Century

Epilogue
Notes 
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: american art music movement • emergence of minimalism • influential trend of 20th century • musics style and performance • nineteen fifties and sixties • origins and transformations of stylistic movement • sparked active writing culture • story of minimalism • struggle with music establishment • triumph of minimalism
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96808-5 / 0520968085
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96808-0 / 9780520968080