Perspectives on American Music since 1950

James R. Heintze

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780815321446
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135599416
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools. In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are both covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the United States.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Electronic Music: An American Voice
• Chapter 2: Elliot Carter’s Tonal Practice in
• Chapter 3: Morton Feldman and the Shape of Time
• Chapter 4: John Cage’s
• Chapter 5: Indeterminate Origins: A Cultural Theory of American Experimental Music
• Chapter 6: Louis Armstrong Blasts Little Rock, Arkansas
• Chapter 7: Mary Lou Williams: A Woman’s Life in Jazz
• Chapter 8: The Premiere of David Diamond’s String Quartet No. 10
• Chapter 9: Cultural Perceptions of African-American Organ Literature
• Chapter 10: The Papers of Emerson Meyers
• Chapter 11: Musical Responses to HIV and AIDS
• Chapter 12: American Choral Music since 1985
• Chapter 13: Milton Babbitt at Eighty
• Chapter 14: New Orleans Composers of the 1990s
• Contributors
• Index