The scandal over modern music has not died--while paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for millions of dollars, works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate th...

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Main Author:	Ross, Alex 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
Edition:	1. ed.
Subjects:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Musik Music > 20th century > Histoy and criticism Neue Musik
Online Access:	Table of contents only Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	The scandal over modern music has not died--while paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for millions of dollars, works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. Music critic Alex Ross shines a bright light on this secret world, taking us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, and riots. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.--From publisher description.
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	XIV, 624 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9780374249397 0374249393