Title: All American music :
Authors: Rockwell, John.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Knopf :
Physical description: x, 286 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Rise of American art music & the impact of the immigrant wave of the late 1930's : Ernst Krenek -- Northeastern academic establishment & the romance of science : Milton Babbitt -- American intellectual composers & the "ideal public" : Elliott Carter -- American experimental tradition & its godfather : John Cage -- Romantic defiance, enlightened patronage & misanthropy in the Midwest : Ralph Shapey -- Return of tonality, the orchestral audience & the danger of success : David Del Tredici -- Romantic revival & the dilemma of the political composer : Frederic Rzewski -- Post-Cageian experimentation & new kinds of collaboration : Robert Ashley -- Orient, the visual arts & the evolution of minimalism : Philip Glass -- Women composers, performance art & the perils of fashion : Laurie Anderson -- Electronic & computer music & the humanist reaction : David Behrman -- Environmental composers & ambient music : Max Neuhaus -- Musique concrete & composition beyond music : Walter Murch -- Jazz, group improvisation, race & racism : Art Ensemble of Chicago -- Mystical romanticism, popularity & the varied forms of fusion : Kennith Jarrett -- Free jazz, body music & symphonic dreams : Ornette Coleman -- Latin music, folk music and the artist as craftsman : Eddie Palmieri -- Urban popular song, the Broadway musical, the cabaret revival & the birth pangs of American opera : Stephen Sondheim -- Rock, populism & transcendental primitivism : Neil Young -- Art-rock, black vs. white & vanguard cross-pollination : Talking Heads.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.