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Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
Kyle Gann
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Description for Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
paperback. A collection that represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the "Village Voice" by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. It also includes interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures. Num Pages: 333 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the "Village Voice" by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the ... Read more
This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the "Village Voice" by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
Number of Pages
333
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520229822
SKU
V9780520229822
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About Kyle Gann
Kyle Gann is music critic for the Village Voice and Associate Professor of Music at Bard College. He is the author of American Music in the Twentieth Century (1997) and The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (1995).
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