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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.