Mavericks and Other Traditions in American MusicFrom colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness. |
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Michael Broyles. Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music MICHAEL BROYLES Yale Front Cover.
Michael Broyles. Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music MICHAEL BROYLES Yale University Press New Haven & London Copyright © 2004 by Yale University . All rights reserved.
... Mavericks and other traditions in American music / Michael Broyles . p . cm . In memory of William Kingsley Broyles , 1905-1992 Acknowledgments CONTENTS. ISBN 0-300-10045-0 ( alk . paper ) 1. Composers - United States . 2. Music — United ...
... Maverick Core ix 1 35 13 39 71 92 112 153 176 205 243 CHAPTER 10. Minimalism and Strange Bedfellows PART 4. The Legacy of the Mavericks CHAPTER 11. Looking Back : Puritanism , Geography , and the Myth of American Individualism 271 ...
... maverick in our culture points to a kind of us . It speaks of pressure points in American society , forces of conformance without which the very notion of maverick would be meaningless . “ Us , ” here at its broadest , refers to a ...
Contents
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PART 3 After the War | 151 |
PART 4 The Legacy of the Mavericks | 269 |
Notes | 337 |
Bibliography | 363 |
Index | 377 |