![Music Downtown : Writings from the Village Voice](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/822/229/9780520229822.HO.0.l.jpg)
Music Downtown : Writings from the Village Voice Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Gann, Kyle
- Used
Description
Standard delivery: 5 to 21 days
Details
- Title Music Downtown : Writings from the Village Voice
- Author Gann, Kyle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 333
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2006-02-13
- Features Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 12813319-6
- ISBN 9780520229822 / 0520229827
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 2.39 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Music - New York (State) - New York, Music - New York (State) - New York - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004029227
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.974
About Better World Books Ltd Fife, United Kingdom
Better World Books generates funding for literacy charities through the sales of second-hand books. Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read. (Registered Charities no. 1128534, no. 1116260 and no. 1125803 and the National Adult Literacy Agency. Much of our stock is ex-library due to our close relationships with UK libraries. We offer a service that helps them keep their unwanted books out of landfill. All ex-library books will be marked as such in their individual listings. 99% of orders are dispatched within 24 hours and we offer a 100% money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied.
From the publisher
From the rear cover
"A highly intelligent and vividly engaged depiction of the new music scene over the last several years. The music Gann discusses is some of the most important being produced today, as well as the least attended to by scholars and the media. The 'you are there' feel of these articles conveys the intellectual and artistic rigor behind the music, as well as the passion and commitment of its makers. The writing is polemical, emotional, advocatory; Gann is often provocative, and always honest and forceful."--Evan Ziporyn, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clarinetist and Composer, Bang On A Can All-stars
"The late 1980s and the 1990s were probably the most contentious years in the history of American music, especially in New York. The Soho News had folded. The New York Times had opted out. During this time, Kyle Gann was consistently the most interesting, reliable and honest reviewer in all of New York. Everybody read him. Probably every composer mentioned in this book would want to "correct" what has been said about her or his music. But you can't argue with Kyle. His opinions are too deeply felt. He is too well-studied. He writes too well. And he is too smart."--Robert Ashley, Composer
"No one else could have written this marvelous book. No one else has been so completely immersed in "new music" as has Gann for some twenty years--and moreover likes it. No other music critic is so courageous, communicative, compelling, and candid (if now and then contentious)--or writes such consummately crystalline, convincing prose. Hurrah! Huzzah!!"--H. Wiley Hitchcock, Distinguished Professor of Music emeritus, CUNY, and founding director, Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College
Media reviews
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 09/26/2005, Page 73