Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction

by Stephen Graham, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Tom Perchard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108481981
• ISBN13: 9781108481984
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.7"