num_pages: 333
description: 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 death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles―including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures―Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.
language: English
title: Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
titlecomplete: Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Music
ratings_count: 54
publisher: University of California Press