Repeating Ourselves
Subtitle: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780520240360
Subjects: 20th century music; Popular culture; Social aspects; Minimal music; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; United States; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; History and criticism; General
First sentence: During the spring, summer, and fall of 1976, a radically new type of musical experience - strictly patterned, tonally static, beat-driven - insinuated its way into the mainstream of Western music culture.