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Part 1, Historical and regional perspectives: Mapping early minimalism / Keith Potter ; A technically definable stream of postminimalism, its characteristics and its meaning / Kyle Gann ; European minimalism and the modernist problem / Maarten Beirens ; Systems and other minimalism in Britain / Virginia Anderson -- Part 2, Minimalism and the theatre: Minimalism in the time-based arts: dance, film and video / Dean Suzuki ; From minimalist music to post-opera: repetition, representation and (post)modernity in the operas of Philip Glass and Louis Andriessen / Jelena Novak ; Accommodating the threat of the machine: the act of repetition in live performance / Jeremy Peyton Jones -- Part 3, Minimalism and other media: Minimalism, technology and electronic music / Richard Glover ; Minimalist and postminimalist music in multimedia: from the avant-garde to the Blockbuster Film / Rebecca M. Doran Eaton ; Going with the flow: minimalism as cultural practice in the USA since 1945 / Robert Fink ; Disaffected sounds, temporalised visions: Philip Glass and the audiovisual impulse in postminimalist music / John Richardson and Susanna Välimäki -- Part 4 Analytical and philosophical perspectives: Analysing minimalist and postminimalist music: an overview of methodologies / Tristian Evans ; Reference and quotation in minimalist and postminimalist music / Pwyll ap Siôn ; Minimalism and narrativity: some stories by Steve Reich / John Pymm -- A theoretical model of postminimalism and two brief "case studies" / Marija Masnikosa -- Part 5 Minimalism and beyond: Defining "spiritual minimalism" / David Dies ; Minimalism and pop: influence, reaction, consequences / Jonathan W. Bernard ; Musical minimalism in Serbia: emergence, beginnings and its creative endeavours / Dragana Stojanović-Novicić -- Part 6 Issues of performance: Clapping music: a performer's perspective / Russell Hartenberger ; Performing minimalist music / John Harle ; Performance anxiety and minimalism / Sarah Cahill ; Some observations on the performance of Arvo Pärt's choral music / Paul Hillier