The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music / edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Nicholas, 1950- editor.

Pople, Anthony, editor.

Series:

Cambridge history of music

The Cambridge history of music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 818 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-ranging and eclectic book traces the progressive fragmentation of the European 'art' tradition, and its relocation as one tradition among many at the century's end. While the focus is on Western traditions, both 'art' and popular, these are situated within the context of world music, including a case study of the interaction of 'art' and traditional musics in post-colonial Africa. An international authorship brings a wide variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the history of music.

Contents:

Introduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music / Nicholas Cook, Anthony Pople

Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music / Jonathan Stock

Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy / Leon Botstein

Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900-20 / Christopher Butler

Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War / Stephen Banfield

Classic jazz to 1945 / James Lincoln Collier

Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900-45 / Susan C. Cook

Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'little people from the suburbs' / Peter Franklin

Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars / David Nicholls

Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern / Joseph Auner

Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period / Hermann Danuser

Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond / Michael Walter

Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920-70 / Derek B. Scott

New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945-62 / David Osmond-Smith

Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945-75 / Arnold Whitall

After swing: modern jazz and its impact / Mervyn Cooke

Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s / Robynn Stilwell

Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962-75 / Richard Toop

To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity / Andrew Blake

Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism / Alastair Williams

(Post- )minimalisms 1970-2000: the search for a new mainstream / Robert Fink

History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 / Dai Griffiths

'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa / Martin Scherzinger

Appendix 1: Personalia / Peter Elsdon, Björn Heile

Appendix 2: Chronology / Peter Elsdon, Peter Jones.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139054003 (ebook)

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