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Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
Thomas W. Patteson
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Description for Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
Paperback. Tracing a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art, this book combines an artifact-oriented history of music with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and arts. Num Pages: 252 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' new open access publishing program for monographs. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film-these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during ... Read more
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' new open access publishing program for monographs. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film-these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288027
SKU
V9780520288027
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About Thomas W. Patteson
Thomas Patteson is Professor of Music History at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is also Associate Curator for Bowerbird, a performing organization that presents contemporary music, film, and dance.
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