Repeating Ourselves
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Repeating Ourselves

American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice

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Repeating Ourselves

American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice

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Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780520938946
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction. The Culture of Repetition
  4. PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF EROS: REPETITION AS DESIRE CREATION
  5. PART TWO: THE CULTURE OF THANATOS: REPETITION AS MOOD REGULATION
  6. Notes
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Index