Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Tradition (eBook, PDF)

A special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review
Redaktion: Covach, John; Everett, Walter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture. Fascinating philosophical and analytical issues arise as a picture of the rich historical relationship between the two media emerges.
John Covach is associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published numerous articles on rock music, twelve-tone music and theory, and the philosophy of music. He is co-editor, with Graeme Boone, of Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis (Oxford UP, 1997). Also includes 32 musical examples.
Walter Everett is associate professor of music of Music at the University of Michigan. He has published numerous articles on rock music, art song, opera, Schenkerian theory, and other topics. He is author of The Beatles as Musicans: Revolver through theAnthology (O

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134430383
• Artikelnr.: 40296696

Autorenporträt

Edited by Covach, John; Everett, Walter

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Harmonic Relations: American Popular Harmonies (1925-1950) and Their European Kin; Chapter 2 Performances in Early Hollywood Sound Films: Source Music
Background Music
and the Integrated Sound Track
David Neumeyer; Chapter 3 Analyzing Third Stream
David Joyner; Chapter 4 Into the Ivory Tower: Vernacular Music and the American Academy
Austin B. Caswell
Christopher Smith; Chapter 5 Re-Drawing Boundaries: The Kronos Quartet
Dave Headlam; Chapter 6 Can Music Reweave the Fabric of Our Fragmented Culture?
William Bolcom;