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Musical portraits : the composition of identity in contemporary and experimental music /

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"This book explores the wide-ranging but underexamined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions of identity have changed alongside increasing innovation in musical composit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walden, Joshua S., 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Characters and characteristics in music.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Characters and characteristics in music
Music
Porträtwerk
Komponist
Musik
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Portraiture as a musical genre
  • Musical and literary portraiture
  • Musical portraits of visual artists
  • Listening in on composers' self-portraits
  • Celebrity, music, and the multimedia portrait
  • Epilogue: Musical portraiture, the posthumous, and the posthuman.