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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      05 August 2004
      ISBN:
      9781139054003
      9780521662567
      9781107631991
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521662567
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.28kg, 838 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.31kg, 824 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, History, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Music
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, History, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Music
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Music
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    The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-ranging and eclectic book traces the progressive fragmentation of the European 'art' tradition, and its relocation as one tradition among many at the century's end. While the focus is on Western traditions, both 'art' and popular, these are situated within the context of world music, including a case study of the interaction of 'art' and traditional musics in post-colonial Africa. An international authorship brings a wide variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the history of music.

    Reviews

    'Its pluralist narrative finds room for pop, jazz and easy listening alongside classical mainstreams and avant-garde orthodoxies. The non-interventionist stance makes for lively debate between contributors, reflecting the revisionist brand of musicology where the importance of any musical culture must be constantly contested.'

    Source: The Independent

    'It can be warmly recommended as a worthwhile institutional purchase and as an encouragingly good read.'

    Source: Music teacher

    'There is no doubt that this hefty single-volume history of music in the twentieth century is a brave and ambitious undertaking … fascinating … authoritative … compelling critical reappraisal … passionate … thought-provoking and challenging in their reassessment of the concept of the mainstream in twentieth-century music histories, and in their rethinking of how to tell selected aspects of those histories.'

    Source: Twentieth-Century Music

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