Repeating Ourselves
：American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Publication subTitle ：American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Author： Fink> Robert
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2005
E-ISBN: 9780520938946
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520245501
Subject： J605 音乐评论、欣赏
Keyword： 音乐
Language： ENG
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Description
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.