Repeating Ourselves : American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
by
Robert Fink
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520245504
ISBN-13
9780520245501
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 13th, 2005
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
20th century & contemporary classical musicPopular culture
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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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