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Subject(s)

• Music—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Cook, Nicholas, 1950- [Browse]
• Pople, Anthony [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge history of music. [More in this series]
• The Cambridge history of music

Summary note

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-ranging and eclectic book traces the progressive fragmentation of the European 'art' tradition, and its relocation as one tradition among many at the century's end. While the focus is on Western traditions, both 'art' and popular, these are situated within the context of world music, including a case study of the interaction of 'art' and traditional musics in post-colonial Africa. An international authorship brings a wide variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the history of music.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes discographies.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music / Nicholas Cook, Anthony Pople
• Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music / Jonathan Stock
• Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy / Leon Botstein
• Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900-20 / Christopher Butler
• Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War / Stephen Banfield
• Classic jazz to 1945 / James Lincoln Collier
• Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900-45 / Susan C. Cook
• Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'little people from the suburbs' / Peter Franklin
• Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars / David Nicholls
• Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern / Joseph Auner
• Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period / Hermann Danuser
• Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond / Michael Walter
• Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920-70 / Derek B. Scott
• New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945-62 / David Osmond-Smith
• Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945-75 / Arnold Whitall
• After swing: modern jazz and its impact / Mervyn Cooke
• Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s / Robynn Stilwell
• Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962-75 / Richard Toop
• To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity / Andrew Blake
• Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism / Alastair Williams
• (Post- )minimalisms 1970-2000: the search for a new mainstream / Robert Fink
• History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 / Dai Griffiths
• 'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa / Martin Scherzinger
• Appendix 1: Personalia / Peter Elsdon, Björn Heile
• Appendix 2: Chronology / Peter Elsdon, Peter Jones.

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Other title(s)

Cambridge histories online.

ISBN

1-139-05400-7

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