Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... contemporary composers have tended to produce a kind of music that most people rightly consider to be the very antithesis of what they have come to know - and love — as music . It took a mere 60 years to devolve from Wagner's flames of ...
... contemporary composers have tended to produce a kind of music that most people rightly consider to be the very antithesis of what they have come to know - and love — as music . It took a mere 60 years to devolve from Wagner's flames of ...
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... contemporary musical techniques , Christian and pagan attitudes , sacred liturgy and street theatre , is probably one of the most remarkable works of cultural synthesis in existence . Yet , for all its burning humanity , it has hardly ...
... contemporary musical techniques , Christian and pagan attitudes , sacred liturgy and street theatre , is probably one of the most remarkable works of cultural synthesis in existence . Yet , for all its burning humanity , it has hardly ...
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A Study of Music in Contemporary Culture Peter Fletcher. as contemporary music only detracts from the elucidation that art should bring . The urgent need , as Cage reminds us , is to keep changing : Talking for a moment about contemporary ...
A Study of Music in Contemporary Culture Peter Fletcher. as contemporary music only detracts from the elucidation that art should bring . The urgent need , as Cage reminds us , is to keep changing : Talking for a moment about contemporary ...
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2100351 | 7 |
The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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