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Mavericks and other traditions in American music [electronic resource] / Michael Broyles.

By: Broyles, Michael, 1939-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004Description: [ix], 387 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Composers -- United States | Music -- United States -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
We, the rebels -- Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes ; The log cabin composer -- New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy" ; The community of the ultramoderns -- After the war. New directions : the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism : John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows -- The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-376) and index.

We, the rebels -- Pioneers. William Billings : rebel with many causes ; The log cabin composer -- New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors : Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy" ; The community of the ultramoderns -- After the war. New directions : the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism : John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows -- The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"

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