On Minimalism (eBook)

Documenting a Musical Movement

Kerry O'Brien (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
470 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520382091 (ISBN)

Infos

A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it.

When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenon—minimalism changed everything. Its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the broader avant-garde landscape, informing the work of Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, John and Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others.
 
On Minimalism moves from the style's beginnings in psychedelic counterculture through its present-day influences on ambient jazz, doom metal, and electronic music. The editors look beyond the major figures to highlight crucial and diverse voices—especially women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ musicians—that have shaped the genre. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism curates this history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time.

Inhalt

Contents

Foreword by Joan La Barbara

Introduction 

PART ONE

1. Improvisation and Experimentation 
2. Dream Music 
3. Loops and Process 
4. Altered States 
5. Gurus and Teachers 
6. Cultural Fusion 
7. Across the Arts
8. Ensembles

PART TWO

9. 1976 
10. The New Downtown 
11. Instruments and Environments 
12. Ambient and New Age
13. Canons 
14. Backlash 
15. Politics, Identity, and Expression 
16. Postminimalists 
17. Spiritual Minimalism 
18. Popular Culture

PART THREE

19. Histories 
20. Silences 
21. Futures 

Acknowledgments
Listening Guide
Notes
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: Avant-garde Music • Composers • dream music • expanded history • experimental music • history of minimalism • Improvisation • Interviews • Jazz • musical studies • musicology classes • Pauline Oliveros • Philip Glass • Postminimalists • Primary Sources • Yoko Ono
• ISBN-13: 9780520382091 / 9780520382091