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A history of 20th century music in 10 90minute episodes.
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Written October 05 2011
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Looks awesome! Now I have something to do tomorrow.
nice! cheers for posting this.
wow, nice. cheers!
Looks good, thanks!
20th century western classical music. This is not a history of 20th century music. (I wouldn't quibble if it weren't for the fact that fans and scholars of western classical music consistently treat other areas of music like dirt.)
Nevertheless, this looks good. well... western music yes, although takemitsi gets a look in and he talks about the influence of world musics on classical composers. But he does say nice things about hendrix, the beatles, elvis presley, scott joplin, rogers and hammerstein, charlie parker, miles davis, van morrison, the rolling stones, laurie anderson, lou reed and radiohead.
I've got the book version and in that he makes the interesting point that "Serious Classical music" often just isn't that serious any more. He compares Michael Daugherty's "Metropolis Symphony" and Radiohead's "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" and concludes that Radiohead are the serious composers. Other interesting points he makes = Pierre Boulez and Bill Haley were similar in that a total serial work like "Le Marteau sans Maitre" and early rock and Roll like "Rock Around the Clock" both came out of a reaction against postwar conservatism and society's move to go back to things "how they were". Stockhausen's "Auf Den Seben Tag" was influenced by a meeting with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and is probably more "hippy" music than, say, "Surrealistic Pillow". Sure his main concern is with the Western 20th century canon (although, even her, being an Australian series. he deals with composers like Sculthorpe and Kats-Chernin and Boyd that usually aren't included in the story) but he doesn't look down his nose at Jazz and Blues and Rock and Broadway. motherfucking robots.. we need captcha when you register your account...
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