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Trajectories of twentieth-century music / Nicholas Cook with Anthony Pople -- Peripheries and interfaces: the western impact on other music. Case studies. Instrument design in a global context ; Radios Shanghai and Cairo: disembodied voices, embodied stars ; New soundscapes 1: diaspora and culture-contact ; New soundscapes 2: tourist shows and touring musicians ; New soundscapes 3: conservatories ; Out of Africa: Tuku beat and world music -- Change, continuities and conclusions / Johnathan Stock -- Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy. The predicament: a musical culture at the margins ; The museum function ; The policical economy of musical traditions / Leon Bostein -- Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900-20. Music and knowledge ; A language of modern music? Music and the unconscious ; Music and social meaning ; Understanding innovation / Christopher Butler -- Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the second world war. The old world ; Arenas and musical types ; Popular musical theatre and film ; The tin pan alley system ; Opera, ballet and operetta ; Programme music ; Incidental music for stage and screen ; Sacred and secular gentility ; Devaluation ; Theories and dates of change / Stephen Banfield -- Classic jazz to 1945. Precursors ; The rise of jazz ; The hot dance band ; Jazz piano ; The depression ; Jazz goes abroad ; The swing era ; The Dixieland revival ; Small-band swing / James Lincoln Collier -- Flirting with the vernacular: America and Europe, 1900-45. Transnational popular musics ; Post-war responses ; Compositional responses / Susan C. Cook -- Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'Little people from the suburbs'. Mapping the terrain ; Post-war continuities and new media ; Class, race and Zeitoper jazz ; Cultural politics and merchandising in Vienna ; The symphony and the embattled sruvival of the 'Great composer' ; Tauber: a 1920s superstar ; Humanity eclipsed, or the undoing of 'Music' / Peter Franklin -- Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars. Prologue: brave new worlds ; Before the crash: 'Ending is better than mending' ; After the crash: 'the more stitches, the less riches' ; Epilogue: brave new worlds revisited / David Nicholls -- Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Institutions and performances ; The idea of the second Viennese school, tradition, and contemporary developments ; Historical necessity and twelve-tone composition ; Twelve-tone composition and defining the mainstream ; Serial structure and musical character ; The mainstream after / Joseph Auner -- Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period. Classicisms old and new ; Reclaiming national traditions and the ida of '-ana' works ; From neoclassicism to modernist classicism / Hermann Danuser -- Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond. Emotions, traditions, nationalisms ; Reinventing traditions ; Music by the people, music for the people ; New systems, new media ; The end of an epoch / Michael Walter -- Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920-70. Problems and definitions ; Light classical music ; Vaudeville and variety theatre ; Dance bands ; The tin pan alley song stylists ; Operetta and musical theatre ; Chanson and cabaret ; Popularity charts and song contests ; The dispersal of the middle ground / Derek B. Scott -- New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945-62. The engines of the avant-garde ; A tale of two cities: Paris and New York ; Aesthetics and technique: Boulez vs. Cage ; Children of Darmstadt: Nono and Stockhausen ; Choice vs. chance / David Osmond-Smith -- Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945-75. Towards a moderate mainstream ; Canons of accessibility ; Some prominent moderates. Strauss and Vaughan Williams ; Poulenc, Hindemith, and Prokofiev ; Copland and others -- In a class of their own: Britten and Shostakovich. Works of 1945-6 ; Two late quartets -- Conclusion: centres and extremes / Arnold Whittall -- After swing: modern jazz and its impact. The decline of the big bands ; The bebop 'Revolt' ; Mainstream and cool jazz in the 1950s ; Davis, Coltrane, and the birth of free jazz ; Jazz at the movies ; Symphonic jazz and the third stream ; Fusions and redefinitions / Mervyn Cooke -- Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s. The prehistory and contexts of rock and roll ; Musical origins and revolution ; Economic interlude ; Life in the 'dead zone' ; The British invasion ; The American response ; A perspective on historiography ; ...it's a man's world / Robynn Stilwell -- Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962-75. Darmstadt after Steinecke ; New national schools ; Composing with textures ; Collage, quotation, and irony ; The New York school and Fluxus ; Electroacoustic music - tape music and live electronics ; Minimalism and psychedelia ; Death of the author: improvisation and collective composition ; Political engagement before and after 1968 ; A postscript on documentation and dissemination / Richard Toop -- To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity. Twentieth-century listening and its places ; Hi-fi and the culture of 'Authenticity' ; Patterns of discrimination: genres, labels, niches ; Glocalization: selling the world music ; Copyright from sheet music to samples: whose music? ; Multimedia: the end of 'Music'? / Andrew Blake -- Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism. Institutions and performers ; Composers 1: Boulez, Carter, Ligeti, Berio, Nono, Stockhausen, Cage ; Discourses ; Composers 2: Ferneyhough, Birtwistle, Davies, Schnittke, Gubaidulina, Rihm, Saariaho, Saunders ; Survival / Alastair Williams -- (Post-)minimalisms 1970-2000: the search for a new mainstream. After the last new style ; Minimalism triumphant ; Banging on a can: the post-minimalism of resistance ; Minimalism institutionalized: the post-minimalism of reaction ; (Post-)minimalist music theatre ; A new mainstream? / Robert Fink -- History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000. Punk ; History, consciousness, and identity ; Technology and authenticity ; Sound and words ; Rap ; Canon and movement, remix and cover. Remix: massive attack ; Cover: 'Eleanor Rigby' ; Conclusion: history revisited / Dai Griffiths -- 'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa. (Re)constructing African music ; Unequal fusions: popular and 'art' musics of north and west Africa ; Recontextualizing tradition: popular and 'art' musics of south and east Africa / Martin Scherzinger. |
