Twentieth-Century Music in the West
An Introduction

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms.

Tom Perchard (Author), Stephen Graham (Author), Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Author), Holly Rogers (Author)

9781108741736, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2022

494 pages
24.4 x 16.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.9 kg

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections – Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities – with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

Part I. Histories
Part II. Techniques and Technologies
Part III. Mediation
Part IV. Identities.

Subject Areas: 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6]