The ambient century
Subtitle: from Mahler to trance : the evolution of sound in the electronic age
By: Mark Prendergast
Edition: 1st US ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Electronic music -- History and criticism; Composers -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-482), discographies (p. [474]-476), and index
Table of contents: title: From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; from the Indian-influenced minimalism of Philip Glass and Terry Riley to the 'unlocking' sound worlds of Brian Eno; through the epoch-defining music of rock maestros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to the pure electronic creations of Kraftwerk, Goldie and Trance - this drift through technology, Minimalism, the rock era and Techno is earthed by the development in ambient sound, to the author the most important breakthrough in music of the past one hundred years. Aided by electronics, new ideas and mass consumption, Ambient has established itself beyond question as the 'classical music of the future'.