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Author:   Tristian Evans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780367598044

ISBN 10:   0367598043
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword, Michael Riesman; Introduction; Glass, postminimalism and the media: initial questions and contexts; ’The satisfaction of a drive’: postminimal music and the advertising media; Postmodern unfoldings? Narrative, temporality and repetition in postminimal music; ’Notes on a soundtrack’: reading Glass’s recent film scores; Metamorphic meanings in Glass’s intertextual soundtracks; This is (not) a soundtrack: Dracula the movie or music drama?; Existential conflict in Naqoyqatsi, Book of Longing and Watchmen; Conclusions: reviewing concepts and approaches; Bibliography; Electronic resources; Selected discography; Selected filmography; Artworks; Index.

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"""Recommended"" - J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art in CHOICE ""[Evans] offers a refreshing approach to [postminimalism] by revealing the numerous contradictions in the definitions that have appeared and that are part of its historiography.[…] All in all […] I hope it stimulates further work in this subject."" - Rob Haskins, ARSC Journal"

Recommended - J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art in CHOICE [Evans] offers a refreshing approach to [postminimalism] by revealing the numerous contradictions in the definitions that have appeared and that are part of its historiography.[...] All in all [...] I hope it stimulates further work in this subject. - Rob Haskins, ARSC Journal

Author Information

Tristian Evans is lecturer in Music at Bangor University, UK. He completed BMus, MA and doctoral studies at Bangor between 2002-10, receiving support from the AHRC’s doctoral programme.

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