| Contents |
Keith Jarrett -- Steve Reich -- La Monte Young -- Anthony Davis -- Meredith Monk -- Terry Riley -- John Zorn -- Philip Glass -- George Crumb -- John Adams -- Ingram Marshall. |
| Abstract |
American music today exhibits greater vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness than at any other time in U.S. history. The author's informal conversations with eleven active composers relate how the new American music established its independence from postwar European serialism and the academic hegemony by incorporating elements of native nonclassical music and of once-alien non-Western cultures. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 11) and index. |
| LCCN | 90046787 |
| ISBN | 0253354986 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 025320643X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
