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Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000
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Description for Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000
Hardback.
An exploration of how music and musicians have moved between North America and Europe and the positive exchanges that have resulted. Throughout the 20th century, exchanges between North America and Europe were vital to the development of musical life on both sides of the Atlantic, shifting from a postcolonial imbalance of cultural power at the opening of the century to an increasing sense of encounters between equals. There were productive exchanges of all sorts and in both directions, with ever-shifting dynamics over time. American musicians studied in Europe; European musicians visited the U.S. or were driven into exile there, ... Read more
An exploration of how music and musicians have moved between North America and Europe and the positive exchanges that have resulted. Throughout the 20th century, exchanges between North America and Europe were vital to the development of musical life on both sides of the Atlantic, shifting from a postcolonial imbalance of cultural power at the opening of the century to an increasing sense of encounters between equals. There were productive exchanges of all sorts and in both directions, with ever-shifting dynamics over time. American musicians studied in Europe; European musicians visited the U.S. or were driven into exile there, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839002
SKU
V9781843839002
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Reviews for Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000
Beautifully produced ... a welcome overview of numerous current avenues of research into musical culture in the twentieth century.
TEMPO
Overall, this is an interesting collection which covers an aspect of music not often discussed, that of the cross-pollination of musical ideas between the New World and Old. It offers to students, scholars, and music lovers an in-depth ... Read more
TEMPO
Overall, this is an interesting collection which covers an aspect of music not often discussed, that of the cross-pollination of musical ideas between the New World and Old. It offers to students, scholars, and music lovers an in-depth ... Read more