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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 September 2022
      06 October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108680899
      9781108481984
      9781108741736
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108680899
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.04kg, 494 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 494 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music Criticism
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    This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections – Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities – with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

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    ‘‘Twentieth-Century Music in the West’ is a demanding read. The art of musical and social analysis is always evolving and can be challenging to understand. Despite the complexities involved, Perchard, Graham, Rutherford-Johnson, and Rogers did an outstanding job in summarizing over one hundred years of observation, discussion, and analysis.’

    Aaron J. West Source: Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

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