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Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture


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Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices

1st Edition

Edited By Rebecca Cypess, Estelí Gomez, Rachael Lansang
November 30, 2023

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds, but they often do so using a shared ethos of ...

Music of Louis Andriessen

Music of Louis Andriessen

1st Edition

Edited By Maja Trochimczyk
March 03, 2016

This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism...

Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love

Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love

1st Edition

Edited By Siglind Bruhn
January 20, 2016

These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen's spiritually committed musical language, drawing on his own remarks in subheadings and prefaces, his biblical and theological citations, his allusions to works of visual art, and on the language ...

Apparitions Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

1st Edition

By Berthold Hoeckner
June 23, 2015

Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and ...

New Methods In Language Processing

New Methods In Language Processing

1st Edition

Edited By D. B. Jones, H. Somers
June 01, 1997

Studies in Computational Linguistics presents authoritative texts from an international team of leading computational linguists. The books range from the senior undergraduate textbook to the research level monograph and provide a showcase for a broad range of recent developments in the field. The ...

John Cage Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950

John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950

1st Edition

Edited By David Patterson
December 21, 2001

John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later...

Disruptive Divas Feminism, Identity and Popular Music

Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music

1st Edition

By Lori Burns, Melisse Lafrance
October 12, 2001

Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship....

Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought

Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought

1st Edition

Edited By Judy Lochhead, Joseph Auner
November 07, 2001

What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other ...

The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts

The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts

1st Edition

Edited By Steven Johnson
November 05, 2001

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of ...

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