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New Music, New Allies
New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the reeducation programs implemented by American military officers during the postwar occupation of West Germany and continuing through the cultural policies of the Cold War era, this broad history chronicles German views on American music, American composers’ pursuit of professional opportunities abroad, and the unprecedented dissemination and support their music enjoyed through West German state-subsidized radio stations, new music festivals, and international exchange programs. Framing the biographies of prominent American composer-performers within the aesthetic and ideological contexts of the second half of the twentieth century, Amy C. Beal follows the international careers of John Cage, Henry Cowell, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Conlon Nancarrow, and many others to Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Cologne, Bremen, Berlin, and Munich.
Contemporary Music
This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including Célestin Deliège, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, François Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissière, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical...
Silence and Absence in Literature and Music
This volume focusses on the rarely discussed reverse side of traditional, ‘given’ objects of studies, namely absence rather than presence (of text) and silence rather than sound. It does so from the bifocal and interdisciplinary perspective which is a hallmark of the book series Word and Music Studies. The twelve contributors to the main subject of this volume approach it from various systematic and historical angles and cover, among others, questions such as to what extent absence can become significant in the first place or iconic (silent) functions of musical scores, as well as discussions of fields ranging from baroque opera to John Cage’s 4’33’’. The volume is complemented by two contributions dedicated to further surveying the vast field of word and music studies. The essays collected here were originally presented at the Ninth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at London University in August 2013 and organised by the International Association for Word and Music Studies. They are of relevance to scholars and students of literature, music and intermediality studies as well as to readers generally interested in phenomena of absence and silence.
Words to Be Looked At
A critical study of the use of language and the proliferation of text in 1960s art and experimental music, with close examinations of works by Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Cage, Douglas Huebler, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, and others. Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s—in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, recorded speech, and more. In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968. In many of these works, language has been reduced to an object nearly emptied of meaning. Robe...
Electronic Inspirations
For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances. The studio's composers, collaborating with scientists and technicians, coaxed music from sine-tone oscillators, noise generators, band-pass filters, and magnetic tape. Together, they applied core tenets from information theory and phonetics, reclaiming military communication technologies as well as fascist propaganda broadcasting spaces. The electronic studio nurtured a revolutionary synthesis of science, technology, politics, and aesthetics. Its esoteric sounds transformed mid-century music and continue to reverberate today. Electronic music--echoing both cultural anxiety and promise--is a quintessential Cold War innovation.
Johannes Brahms
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Concord in Massachusetts, Discord in the World
«Reading Thoreau's Journal, I discover any idea I've ever had worth its salt,» notes the American composer John Cage in 1968. Upon reading the words of nineteenth-century nature philosopher Henry Thoreau, Cage is immediately fascinated with the Transcendentalist's ideas, in particular his views on music and silence. Recognizing his own beliefs in Thoreau's writings, Cage began to rely heavily on the thoughts of the nineteenth-century man and implement them as the basis for his own compositions - both musical and written. Drawing on the complete oeuvres of Cage's and Thoreau's written works, this book surveys the intertextual relation between the writings of the two men. In the juxtaposition of these authors' aesthetics, this book reveals surprising overlaps in the thoughts of Cage and Thoreau.
Neue Musik und Interkulturalität
Interkulturalitat ist seit den 1990er Jahren in der neuen Musik verstarkt zum Thema geworden. Diese Studie analysiert detailliert interkulturelle Konzepte ostasiatischer und westlicher Komponisten und stellt diese in einen historischen Kontext. Gesellschaftliche und politische Einflusse werden dabei ebenso hervorgehoben wie die Nachwirkungen bzw. die Kontinuitat der Stereotypen und Machtverhaltnisse von Exotismus und Kolonialismus. Nach Abschnitten uber fuhrende Komponisten beider kultureller Bereiche seit 1950 wird der chinesisch-amerikanische Komponist Tan Dun ins Zentrum geruckt, bei dem das groae Potenzial musikalischer Interkulturalitat sehr plastisch sichtbar wird. Dabei wird zugleich ...
Physiotherapie in der Neurologie
Evidenzbasiert und multidisziplinär: die moderne Neurorehabilitation Die moderne Neurorehabilitation hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren rasant weiterentwickelt. Evidenzbasierte, multidisziplinäre und zum Teil hoch technologisierte Therapieansätze sind Basis einer individuellen Rehabilitation von neurologischen Patientinnen und Patienten. Das Ziel: die Wiedererlangung der Alltagsfähigkeiten. Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die physiotherapeutische Behandlung von verschiedenen neurologischen Erkrankungen, wie Schlaganfall, M. Parkinson, Multiple Sklerose oder Schädel-Hirn-Trauma. Erfahren Sie welche Therapieansätze bei den verschiedenen Störungsbildern (z. B. von Sensorik, Lokomotion, Motorik, Bewusstsein oder Sprache) erfolgversprechend sind, wie Sie in der Untersuchung der Patientinnen und Patienten auf Basis eines strukturierten Clinical Reasoning vorgehen können und welchen Beitrag andere medizinische Disziplinen zur Genesung von Betroffenen leisten können. Informationen über die Pathologie verschiedener Störungsbilder runden das Buch ab. Fallbeispiele beschreiben die umfassende Therapie von Betroffenen detailliert und praxisnah.
