{"product_id":"on-minimalism-9780520382077","title":"On Minimalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it.    When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenonminimalism changed everything. Its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the broader avant-garde landscape, informing the work of Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, John and Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others.    On Minimalism moves from the style's beginnings in psychedelic counterculture through its present-day influences on ambient jazz, doom metal, and electronic music. The editors look beyond the major figures to highlight crucial and diverse voicesespecially women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ musiciansthat have shaped the genre. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism curates this history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gust of fresh air blowing across a stage. . . . As a compilation of source texts, \u003ci\u003eOn Minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e is unparalleled, containing prescient, critical writings from many commentators and participants. . . . Organized in 21 accessible chunks (not only the expected ones, but also others covering spirituality, multimedia and altered states), each headed by an introduction that synthesizes the coming information, this is a breeze to navigate and, for all its scholarly chops, relaxed in its learning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\"An array of voices and perspectives kept from being bewildering by the editors’ clear and sensible organization. . . . . \u003ci\u003eOn Minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e, with its contradictory array of opinions, assertions and recollections shows us how musicians, critics, the listening public and the larger cultural machine experienced, thought about and grappled with one of the more unlikely success stories in the American avant-garde.\" * Spectrum Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Joan La Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Improvisation and Experimentation \u003cbr\u003e 2. Dream Music \u003cbr\u003e 3. Loops and Process \u003cbr\u003e 4. Altered States \u003cbr\u003e 5. Gurus and Teachers \u003cbr\u003e 6. Cultural Fusion \u003cbr\u003e 7. Across the Arts\u003cbr\u003e 8. Ensembles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. 1976 \u003cbr\u003e 10. The New Downtown \u003cbr\u003e 11. Instruments and Environments \u003cbr\u003e 12. Ambient and New Age\u003cbr\u003e 13. Canons \u003cbr\u003e 14. Backlash \u003cbr\u003e 15. Politics, Identity, and Expression \u003cbr\u003e 16. Postminimalists \u003cbr\u003e 17. Spiritual Minimalism \u003cbr\u003e 18. Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19. Histories \u003cbr\u003e 20. Silences \u003cbr\u003e 21. Futures \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Listening Guide\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402951631191,"sku":"9780520382077","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520382077.jpg?v=1730481947","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-minimalism-9780520382077","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}