{"product_id":"lou-harrison-american-musical-maverick-hardback-9780253025616","title":"Lou Harrison; American Musical Maverick (Hardback) 9780253025616","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLou Harrison\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Musical Maverick\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBill Alves (Author), Brett Campbell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253025616\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 April 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e582 pages, 31 b\u0026amp;w illus., 16 music exx., 3 tables\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 1.252 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A superb new biography\"—Alex Ross, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An illuminating and engrossing new biography\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Readers who are willing to take a deep dive will be well rewarded. Harrison's life story was an inspiring one, as Alves and Campbell demonstrate. . . . Through the authors' research, we see the complex network of connections between composers—the camaraderie, and the occasional infighting and drama.\"—\u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Comprehensive and engrossing\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This scrupulously researched, lovingly written biography provides a comprehensive overview of the man, his life and times, and the music he made.\"—\u003ci\u003eSonglines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I studied with Lou Harrison, and he provided my first up-close exposure to world music, to different tuning systems, and to a real live member of the pantheon of American experimental music. I highly recommend this exhaustively researched book, which clearly captures his personality and life: his states of mind, his sexuality, his self-awareness and self-questioning, his journey from young, under-employed composer to lauded master.\"—David Lang, \u003ci\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning composer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Lou Harrison's avuncular personality and tuneful music coaxed affectionate regard from all who knew him, and that affection is evident on every page of Alves and Campbell's new biography. Eminently readable, it puts Harrison at the center of American music: he knew everyone important and was in touch with everybody, from mentors like Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives and Harry Partch and Virgil Thomson to peers like John Cage to students like Janice Giteck and Paul Dresher. He was larger than life in person, and now he is larger than life in history as well.\"—Kyle Gann, author of Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata\u003cbr\u003e \"In this new biography, Bill Alves and Brett Campbell share a thorough overview of Harrison's life in the form of a dense, chronological narrative, rich in details meticulously cited, and interwoven with insightful details about his music.\"—John MacInnis, \u003ci\u003eNotes, the journal of the Music Library Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In this new biography, Bill Alves and Brett Campbell share a thorough overview of Harrison's life in the form of a dense, chronological narrative, interwoven with insightful details about his music.\"—\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein; Living Theater founder, Judith Malina; and choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Today, musicians from Bang on a Can to Björk are indebted to the cultural hybrids Harrison pioneered half a century ago. His explorations of new tonalities at a time when the rest of the avant garde considered such interests heretical set the stage for minimalism and musical post-modernism. His propulsive rhythms and ground-breaking use of percussion have inspired choreographers from Merce Cunningham to Mark Morris, and he is considered the godfather of the so-called \"world music\" phenomenon that has invigorated Western music with global sounds over the past two decades.\u003cbr\u003e In this biography, authors Bill Alves and Brett Campbell trace Harrison's life and career from the diverse streets of San Francisco, where he studied with music experimentalist Henry Cowell and Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, and where he discovered his love for all things non-traditional (Beat poetry, parties, and men); to the competitive performance industry in New York, where he subsequently launched his career as a composer, conducted Charles Ives's Third Symphony at Carnegie Hall (winning the elder composer a Pulitzer Prize), and experienced a devastating mental breakdown; to the experimental arts institution of Black Mountain College where he was involved in the first \"happenings\" with Cage, Cunningham, and others; and finally, back to California, where he would become a strong voice in human rights and environmental campaigns and compose some of the most eclectic pieces of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Hail, Lou! \/ Mark Morris\u003cbr\u003e Preface: Lou's World\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Oregon Trails\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Silver Court (1917-1934)\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Vast Acreage\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Wonderful Whirligig (1935-1936)\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Ultramodernist (1935-1936)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Grand Manner (1936-1937)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Changing World (1937-1938)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Double Music (1938-1939)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Drums Along the Pacific (1939-1941)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Into the Labyrinth (1941-1942)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Western Dance (1942-1943)\u003cbr\u003e Part III: A Hell of a Town\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Lonesome Isle (1943-1945)\u003cbr\u003e 11. New York Waltzes (1945-1946)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Praises for the Archangel (1946)\u003cbr\u003e 13. Day of Ascension (1946-1947)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Tears of the Angel (1947-1948)\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Perilous Chapel (1948-1949)\u003cbr\u003e 16. Pastorales (1949-1950)\u003cbr\u003e 17. The White Goddess (1951)\u003cbr\u003e 18. A Great Playground (1951-1952)\u003cbr\u003e 19. Lake Eden (1952-1953)\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Full Circle\u003cbr\u003e 20. A Paradise Garden of Delights (1953-1955)\u003cbr\u003e 21. Free Style (1955-1957)\u003cbr\u003e 22. Wild Rights (1957-1961)\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Pacifica\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Human Music (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Pacific Rounds (1962-1963)\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Family of the Court (1963-1966)\u003cbr\u003e 26. Stars Upon his Face (1967-1969)\u003cbr\u003e 27. Young Caesar and Old Granddad (1969-1974)\u003cbr\u003e 28. Elegies (1973-1975)\u003cbr\u003e Part VI: The Great Melody\u003cbr\u003e 29. Golden Rain (1975-1977)\u003cbr\u003e 30. Playing Together (1977-1979)\u003cbr\u003e 31. Showers of Beauty (1978-1982)\u003cbr\u003e 32. Paradisal Music (1982-1984)\u003cbr\u003e 33. Stampede (1983-1987)\u003cbr\u003e 34. New Moon (1986-1990)\u003cbr\u003e 35. Book Music (1991-1995)\u003cbr\u003e 36. An Eden of Music and Mountains (1995-1997)\u003cbr\u003e 37. Asian Artistry (1997-2002)\u003cbr\u003e 38. White Ashes (2003)\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Glossary of Musical Terms\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: List of Harrison's Compositions\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525069435160,"sku":"9780253025616","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lou-harrison-american-musical-maverick-hardback-9780253025616","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}