Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/7WE00o Repeating Ourselves American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice By: Robert Fink Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520240360, 0520240367 eText ISBN: 9780520938946, 0520938941 Edition: 1st Pages: 296 Copyright year: 2005 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780520938946 Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient easy listening; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education. Additional ISBNs 9780520245501, 0520245504
