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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

Series The Cambridge History of Music

Edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-10 0521662567

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521662567

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521662567

Overview

This wide-ranging and eclectic book is the first to view the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. It traces the fragmentation of the European 'art' tradition, and its relocation as one tradition among many at the century's end. While the focus is on Western traditions, both 'art' and popular, these are situated within the developing context of 'world music'. An international authorship brings a wide variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the history of music.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge History of Music: The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

Frontmatter

Introduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople

Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music by Jonathan Stock

Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy by Leon Botstein

Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900–20 by Christopher Butler

Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War by Stephen Banfield

Classic jazz to 1945 by James Lincoln Collier

Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900–45 by Susan C. Cook

Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the ‘little people from the suburbs’ by Peter Franklin

Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars by David Nicholls

Proclaiming the mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern by Joseph Auner

Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period by Hermann Danuser

Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond by Michael Walter

Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920–70 by Derek B. Scott

New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945–62 by David Osmond-Smith

Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945–75 by Arnold Whittall

After swing: modern jazz and its impact by Mervyn Cooke

Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s by Robynn Stilwell

Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962–75 by Richard Toop

To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity by Andrew Blake

Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism by Alastair Williams

(Post-)minimalisms 1970–2000: the search for a new mainstream by Robert Fink

History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 by Dai Griffiths

‘Art’ music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa by Martin Scherzinger

Personalia by Peter Elsdon and Björn heile

Chronology by Peter Elsdon and peter jones

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