New music, new allies : American experimental music in West Germany from the zero hour to reunification / Amy C. Beal
Serie: California studies in 20th-century music ; 4Utgivning: Berkeley : University of California Press, cop. 2006Beskrivning: xvi, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0-520-24755-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 978-0-520-24755-0
- 780/.973/0943 22
- Ijb-fag.5
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B25.600 | 1 | Available | 26201811724 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-325) and index.
Introduction : West Germany and the American experimental tradition -- The American occupation and agents of reeducation (1945-1950) -- Debuts (1950-1954) -- Ambassadors for the American avant-garde (1955-1958) -- Musics of change : action after Cage (1959-1961) -- Changing of the guards (1962-1970) -- The pluralism paradigm (1970-1974) -- New allies and old heroes (1975-1990) -- Conclusion : from Darmstadt to Halberstadt.
Documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.