Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction Perchard Tom
Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction Perchard Tom This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms.…
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Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction Perchard Tom
This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts.
In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. 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. 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
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