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020 a| 0300100450 (alk. paper);

020 a| 9780300100457 (alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Broyles, Michael,d| 1939-=| ^A264910;

245 10 a| Mavericks and other traditions in American music /c| Michael Broyles.;

300 a| [ix], 387 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index.;

520 a| From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book the author considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music--classical, popular, and jazz--and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.;

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Mavericks and other traditions in American music / Michael Broyles.

Author/creator	Broyles, Michael, 1939-
Format	Book
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Description	[ix], 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Composers--United States. Music--United States. --History and criticism.

Contents	We, the rebels -- Part 1. Pioneers. William Billings: rebel with many causes ; The log cabin composer -- Part 2. New concepts and forces in American culture. Precursors: Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein ; "Prologue to the annual tragedy" ; The community of the ultramoderns -- Part 3. After the war. New directions: the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism: John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows -- Part 4. The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back: Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward: "The end of the Renaissance!"
Abstract	From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book the author considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music--classical, popular, and jazz--and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.
Local note	Little-344589--305131050654X
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index.
LCCN	2003021090
ISBN	0300100450 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780300100457 (alk. paper)

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