The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
- Editor: Cook, Nicholas
- Editor: Pople, Anthony
It can be warmly recommended as a worthwhile institutional purchase and as an encouragingly good read —
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Contents
- Introduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music Nicholas Cook with Anthony Pople;
- 1. Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music Jonathan Stock;
- 2. Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy Leon Botstein;
- 3. Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900-20 Christopher Butler;
- 4. Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War Stephen Banfield;
- 5. Classic jazz to 1945 James Lincoln Collier;
- 6. Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900-1945 Susan C. Cook;
- 7. Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'little people from the suburbs' Peter Franklin;
- 8. Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars David Nicholls;
- 9. Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern Joseph Auner;
- 10. Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period Hermann Danuser;
- 11. Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond Michael Walter;
- 12. Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920-70 Derek B. Scott;
- 13. New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945-62 David Osmond-Smith;
- 14. Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945-75 Arnold Whittall;
- 15. After swing: modern jazz and its impact Mervyn Cooke;
- 16. Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s Robynn Stilwell;
- 17. Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962-75 Richard Toop;
- 18. To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity Andrew Blake;
- 19. Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism Alastair Williams;
- 20. (Post-)minimalisms, 1975-2000: the search for a new mainstream Robert Fink;
- 21. History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 Dai Griffiths;
- 22. 'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa Martin Scherzinger; Appendix
- 1. Personalia Peter Elsdon with Bjoern Heile; Appendix
- 2. Chronology Peter Elsdon and Peter Jones.