Repeating Ourselves American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice

Where did musical minimalism come from-and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.

ISBN:	9780520245501
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	13 Sep 2005
DEWEY:	781.3
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	325
Weight:	418g
Height:	228mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	17mm

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