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Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Robert Fink
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Description for Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 18 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520245501
SKU
V9780520245501
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About Robert Fink
Robert Fink is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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