Rethinking Reich
- Editor: ap Siôn, Pwyll
- Editor: Gopinath, Sumanth S.
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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