Rethinking Reich

Contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction: Reich in Context
• Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Sion
• Part I Political, Aesthetic, and Analytical Concerns
• 1. Departing to other spheres: Psychedelic Science Fiction, Perspectival Embodiment, and the Hermeneutics of Steve Reich's Four Organs
• -- by Sumanth Gopinath
• 2. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Resulting Patterns, Extended Melodies, Eight Lines, and the influence of the West on Steve Reich
• -- by Pwyll ap Sion
• 3. Different Tracks: Narrative sequence, Harmonic (Dis)continuity and Structural Organization in Steve Reich's Different Trains and The Cave
• -- by Maarten Beirens
• 4. We are not trying to make a political piece: The Reconciliatory Aesthetic of Steve Reich's The Cave
• -- by Ryan Ebright
• Part II Repetition, Speech, and Identity
• 5. Repetition, Speech, and Authority in Steve Reich's Jewish Music
• -- by Robert Fink
• 6. Steve Reich's Dramatic Sound Collage for the Harlem Six: Towards a Prehistory of Come Out
• -- by John Pymm
• 7. From World War Two to the War on Terror: An Examination of Steve Reich's Docu-Music Style in WTC 9/11
• -- by Celia Fitz-Walter
• Part III Reich Revisited: Sketch Studies
• 8. Save as ... >: Hybrid Resources in the Steve Reich Collection
• -- by Matthias Kassel
• 9. Sketching a New Tonality: A Preliminary Assessment of Steve Reich's Sketches for Music for 18 Musicians in Telling the Story of This Work's Approach to Tonality
• -- by Keith Potter
• 10. Improvisation, Two Variations on a Watermelon, and a New Timeline for Piano Phase
• -- by David Chapman
• 11. Steve Reich's Counterpoints and Computers: Rethinking the 1980s
• -- by Twila Bakker
• Part IV Beyond the West: Bali, Buddhism and Africa
• 12. Afro-Electric Counterpoint
• -- by Martin Scherzinger
• 13. That's All It Does: Steve Reich and Balinese Gamelan
• -- by Michael Tenzer
• 14. Machine Fantasies into Human Events: Reich and Technology in the 1970s
• -- by Kerry O'Brien