Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With his critical and thorough approach, Levaux manages to cast light on the historical contexts, stylistic nuances and elaborates thereby in a manner, that should resonate and be relevant for both the uninitiated as well as the fanatics." * Scene Point Blank *
"In his quest for ‘Truth’, Levaux provides deeply valuable new historical, disciplinary, and critical perspectives on the history of minimalism, offering novel insights into a topic that many have previously addressed." * Music & Letters *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. 1960: Before Minimalism
2. Taking Root in Modernity: New Music
3. Transcribing Music: New York Avant-Gardists and Monotonality
4. 1967: Giants?
5. Creating Genres: The Theatre of Mixed Means and Dream Music
6. Taking Sides over a New Medium: Electronic Music
7. The New York Hypnotic School: Founding a Movement
8. Untying the Bonds: Process Music
9. Transfiguring Experimental Music: Minimal Music
10. 1975: The Emergence of Minimalism
11. Fighting or Laying Down Arms: Music with Roots in the Aether and Simplicity
12. Persevering: Systems
13. Giving Up Ground; Retaking It: Minimal Music
14. Subscribing to an Idea: A New Current and Modern Music
15. Disrupting the Status Quo: American Minimal Music
16. Going beyond Modernity: Jameson and Lyotard
17. Opening the Borders: Popular Music
18. 1984: The Spread of Minimalism
19. Confirming an Established Fact: Perspectives of New Music
20. Furthering the Fight: New Sounds
21. 1994: The Arrival of Minimalism
22. In Conquest of the Twenty-First Century
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
