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Music in the Late Twentieth Century
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Contents
Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Starting from Scratch
A New Age
Cold War
Denunciation and Contrition
Breaking Ranks
Zero Hour
Polarization
Darmstadt
Fixations
“Total Serialism”
Disquieting Questions
Disquieting Answers
Solace in Ritual
Poster Boy
Chapter 2 Indeterminacy
Means and Ends
Whose Liberation?
Ne Plus Ultra (Going as Far as You can Go)
Purification and its Discontents
Permission
Music and Politics Revisted
Internalized Conflict
Conflicts Denied
New Notations
Preserving the Sacrosanct
Chapter 3 The Apex
Conversions
“Mainstream” Dodecaphony
The Grand Prize
The Path to the New/Old Music
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Academicism, American Style
An Integrated Musical Time/Space
Full Realization
Another Cold War
Logical Positivism
The New Patronage and its Fruits
Elites and Their Discontents
Life Within the Enclave
But Can You Hear It?
Ultimate Realization or Reductio Ad Absurdum?
Chapter 4 The Third Revolution
Tape
An Old Dream Come True
Generating Synthetic Sounds
A Maximalist Out of Season
“Real” Vs. “Pure”
The New Technology Spreads
The Big Science Phase
A Happy Ending
Big Questions Reopened
Reciprocity
Renaissance or Co-optation?
Chapter 5 Standoff (I)
History or Society?
Some Facts and Figures
A Modern Hero
Social Themes and Leitmotives
Allegory (But of What?)
Exotic/Erotic
To Serve By Challenging
Chapter 6 Standoff (II)
Explain Nothing
From Populism to Problem Solving: an American Career
Theory: The Time Screen
Practice: The First Quartet
Reception
A Wholly Disinterested Art?
At the Pinnacle
Chapter 7 The Sixties
What were They?
The Music of Youth
The British “Invasion”
Defection
Rock ‘N’ Roll becomes Rock
Fusion
Integration without Prejudice?
Radical Chic
Chapter 8 A Harmonious Avant-Garde?
New Sites of Innovation
Legendary Beginnings
Music as Spiritual Discipline
A Contradiction in Terms?
“Classical” Minimalism
Secrets of Structure
“All Music is Folk Music”
A Postmodernist Masterwork?
“Crossover”: Who's on Top?
Disco at the Met
Americanization
Closing the Spiritual Circle
Chapter 9 After Everything
Post Modernism?
Its Beginnings for Music
A Parenthesis on Collage
Collage as Theater
Apostasy
Esthetics of Pastiche
Accessibility
Cognitive Constraints?
Where to Go from Here?
One Proposal
The End of Soviet Music
Polystylistics
Chapter 10 Millennium's End
Grand Old Men
Terminal Complexity
“Big Science” Eclipsed
Twentieth-Century “Orality”
Hobo Origins
Imaginary Folklore
A Feminine Redoubt
Music and Computers
The Elite Phase
Spectralism
“Then Along Came Midi!”
First Fruits
Modernists in Postmodernist Clothing?
A Glimpse of the Future?
Back to Nature?
Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
A New Topicality
A New Spirituality
Art Credits
Further Reading
