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9780520233041

American Mavericks

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520233041

  • ISBN10:

    0520233042

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

Inspired by the San Francisco Symphony's highly successful American music festival last June, this book and its accompanying CD provide an entertaining survey of some of America's best-known composers--all of them controversial in their day.

Table of Contents

From the Editors vii
Preface ix
Lukas Foss
The American Maverick Tradition
1(8)
Alan Rich
The Maverick and the Public
9(8)
Michael Broyles
Search for the Modern: Early 20th-Century Mavericks
17(20)
Finding an American Sound: Two Contemporaries
37(14)
New Sources of Musical Sound: Technology and the Junkyard
51(20)
Control and Beyond: The Postwar Avant-Garde
71(18)
Mixed Voices: The '60S Generation
89(28)
Postscript Music for an Evolving World 117(3)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American Mavericks at the San Francisco Symphony: The Programs 120(3)
Notes 123(4)
Illustration credits 127(1)
Bibliography/Discography 128(6)
Contributors 134(2)
Index 136(14)
CD contents 150

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