ABSTRACT

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools. In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are both covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the United States.

chapter Chapter 1|37 pages

Electronic Music: An American Voice

chapter Chapter 3|13 pages

Morton Feldman and the Shape of Time

chapter Chapter 4|13 pages

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra 1

chapter Chapter 6|11 pages

Louis Armstrong Blasts Little Rock, Arkansas

chapter Chapter 7|51 pages

Mary Lou Williams: A Woman's Life in Jazz

chapter Chapter 10|80 pages

The Papers of Emerson Meyers

chapter Chapter 11|29 pages

Musical Responses to HIV and AIDS 1

chapter Chapter 12|28 pages

American Choral Music since 1985

chapter Chapter 13|47 pages

Milton Babbitt at Eighty

chapter Chapter 14|30 pages

New Orleans Composers of the 1990s