Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction, Tom Perchard

Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction

Tom Perchard

Paperback
Regular price$34.99With free membership trial$17.5050% off your first book+ Free shipping
In Stock– Ships within one business day

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections - Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities - with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 5th, 2023
  • Pages: 494
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.70in - 1.10in - 2.00lb
  • EAN: 9781108741736
  • Categories: • History & Criticism - General

About the Author

Perchard, Tom: - Tom Perchard's work centres on the history and historiography of jazz and popular music. He is the author of After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (2015) and Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture (2006). He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project on popular music in the postwar British home.
Graham, Stephen: - Stephen Graham is the author of Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music (2016). He has written articles on late style, fringe music writing and popular modernism. He is working on a book about noise music.
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim: - Tim Rutherford-Johnson is a contemporary music journalist and musicologist. He is the author of Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 (2017) and The Music of Liza Lim (forthcoming), and editor of the sixth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2012).
Rogers, Holly: - Holly Rogers is a scholar of experimental audiovisual culture, and is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013). She has edited books on documentary film sound, experimental film soundtracks, transmedia, cybermedia and music video, and edits a book series for Bloomsbury on music and media, and the journal Sonic Scope.

More books by Tom Perchard

Book Cover for: Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture, Tom Perchard
Book Cover for: After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France, Tom Perchard
Book Cover for: From Soul to Hip Hop, Tom Perchard

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
@GoldsmithsUoL
2 years

A close-knit community, a rich academic heritage, a creative powerhouse, a thought-provoking place. The official account for Goldsmiths.

Tomorrow, join @goldsmithsmusic for the launch of Twentieth Century Music in the West by Tom Perchard, Stephen Graham, @moderncomp and @hollymusication The authors will present the book and the music it addresses, followed by a discussion More details👇 https://t.co/qehOcbcmCj

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman
@claymcleod
2 years

Clay McLeod Chapman is an author.

Caught Stephen Graham Jones and Paul Tremblay at The Strand chatting about DON’T FEAR THE REAPER and CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, with an introduction by Michael Seidlinger (ANYBODY HOME?) and I bumped into Ellen Datlow, Nat Cassidy, Erin E. Adams and Christoph Paul! HappyTime. https://t.co/YoYxnF7CBe

twitter.com

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
@GoldsmithsUoL
2 years

A close-knit community, a rich academic heritage, a creative powerhouse, a thought-provoking place. The official account for Goldsmiths.

Tomorrow, join @goldsmithsmusic for the launch of Twentieth Century Music in the West by Tom Perchard, Stephen Graham, @moderncomp and @hollymusication The authors will present the book and the music it addresses, followed by a discussion More details👇 https://t.co/qehOcbcmCj

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman
@claymcleod
2 years

Clay McLeod Chapman is an author.

Caught Stephen Graham Jones and Paul Tremblay at The Strand chatting about DON’T FEAR THE REAPER and CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, with an introduction by Michael Seidlinger (ANYBODY HOME?) and I bumped into Ellen Datlow, Nat Cassidy, Erin E. Adams and Christoph Paul! HappyTime. https://t.co/YoYxnF7CBe

twitter.com
See more