Mavericks and other traditions in American music
Composers Music e-böcker Criticism, interpretation, etc
Yale University Press
2004
EISBN 9780300127898
We, the rebels.
Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes.
The log cabin composer.
New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy".
The community of the ultramoderns.
After the war. New directions : the serial wars.
Postwar experimentalism : John Cage.
The maverick core.
Minimalism and strange bedfellows.
The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism.
Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"
From colonial times, American composers have lived on the fringes of society & defined themselves in large part as outsiders. Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers & explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts & about American society itself.
Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes.
The log cabin composer.
New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy".
The community of the ultramoderns.
After the war. New directions : the serial wars.
Postwar experimentalism : John Cage.
The maverick core.
Minimalism and strange bedfellows.
The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism.
Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"
From colonial times, American composers have lived on the fringes of society & defined themselves in large part as outsiders. Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers & explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts & about American society itself.
