Twentieth-century music in the West : an introduction / Tom Perchard, Stephen Graham, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Holly Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perchard, Tom, 1976- author.

Graham, Stephen (Musicologist), author.

Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, author.

Rogers, Holly (Professor of music), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Music--20th century--Analysis, appreciation.

Music trade--History--20th century.

Music trade.

Music--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Histories. Place and space, local and global ; Modernism ; Postmodernism ; Canons

Part 2. Techniques and technologies. Work and notation ; Rhythm and time ; Harmony ; Instruments

Part 3. Mediation. Recording and production ; Copyright and the music industry ; States and markets ; Music and the Moving Image

Part 4. Identities. Gender and sexuality ; Race and ethnicity ; Audiences, class and consumption ; Centres and peripheries.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-63889-9

1-108-59831-5

1-108-68089-5

OCLC:

1350687618