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Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Tradition A special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review
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This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture. Fascinating philosophical and analytical issues arise as a picture of the rich historical relationship between the two... Read more
Chapter 1 Harmonic Relations: American Popular Harmonies (1925–1950) and Their European Kin; Chapter 2 Performances in Early Hollywood Sound Films: Source Music, Background Music, and the Integrated Sound Track, David Neumeyer; Chapter 3 Analyzing Third Stream, David Joyner; Chapter 4 Into the Ivory Tower: Vernacular Music and the American Academy, Austin B. Caswell, Christopher Smith; Chapter 5 Re-Drawing Boundaries: The Kronos Quartet, Dave Headlam; Chapter 6 Can Music Reweave the Fabric of Our Fragmented Culture?, William Bolcom;
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Edited by Covach, John; Everett, Walter
