Bibliograph

Musical revolutions, how the sounds of the Western world changed, Stuart Isacoff

Type

Label

Musical revolutions, how the sounds of the Western world changed, Stuart Isacoff

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-285) and index

Illustrations

photographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Musical revolutions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Stuart Isacoff

Sub title

how the sounds of the Western world changed

Summary

"From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history-classical, jazz, rock-all of which forever altered Western culture."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Singing from Symbols -- Tones Like Coiling Vines -- The Birth of Opera -- Out of the Bachs -- The Showoffs -- The Alchemy of Sound -- Jazz Goes to Paris -- A Great Noise -- Emancipating the Dissonance -- Bebop -- Miles Ahead -- Process Music -- A Question of Sex -- Mozart Among the Lotus Blossoms -- Epilogue: The Revolutionary Spirit

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