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In The Cut: A Composer's Guide To The Turntables
While turntablism and its impact on the growth of hip-hop is well documented, the turntables have not received much notice in musical academia. Through this article, I hope to introduce my fellow composers and other students of music to an instrument with great expressive potential and a history of innovation.
By Erik Spangler
Published: 9/10/2008
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From Revolutionary to Normative: A Secret History of Dada and Surrealism in American Music
Dada and surrealism exerted a pervasive influence on 20th-century music, especially on mid-century avant-garde composers based in New York—among them Edgard Varèse, Stefan Wolpe, John Cage, and Morton Feldman.
By Matthew Greenbaum
Published: 7/10/2008
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Lend Me a Pick Ax: The Slow Dismantling of the Compositional Gender Divide
Women have made tremendous strides toward parity with their male colleagues in the field of composition, but we're not all the way home just yet.
By Lisa Hirsch
Published: 5/14/2008
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Picturing Music: The Return of Graphic Notation
Notations 21, an upcoming book and website explores the history of graphic notation in the 40 years since the publication of the legendary John Cage/Alison Knowles anthology.
By Alyssa Timin
Published: 2/27/2008
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Acoustic Ecology and the Experimental Music Tradition
Acoustic Ecology has evolved somewhat consciously from its original intentions but, as importantly, from activities that developed independently, in parallel to, or in reaction against it. Current usage of the term can now be found to describe any or all of these sometimes contradictory positions.
By David Dunn
Published: 1/9/2008
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Juiced In It: Bob Dylan and the Consequences of Electricity
Bob Dylan, synonymous with plugging in, has much to say about electronically mediated music.
By Marc Weidenbaum
Published: 12/12/2007
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Generation of '38 (Part 3): Because Time Was in the Air
Finding ways to forge new syntheses and techniques for themselves through explorations and surprising reconciliations of tonal and post-tonal languages, the generation of American composers born in and around the year 1938 moved into the forefront of American classical music in the 1970s and '80s.
By Judith Tick
Published: 9/21/2007
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Generation of '38 (Part 2): Music is What Happens
At a formative time of their lives, the generation of American composers born in or near the year 1938 lived through an era of profound challenges to general beliefs about music and society.
By Judith Tick
Published: 9/19/2007
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Generation of '38 (Part 1): Sounding Together While Sounding Apart
To be born in 1938 meant straddling the two crises of the mid twentieth century (the Great Depression of the 1930s and the oncoming Second World War of the 1940s), but most composers born at that time were too young in the War years to remember much about this era.
By Judith Tick
Published: 9/17/2007
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Memories Are Better Off Sung
Although memory is suggested in much of the prolific output of The Fiery Furnaces, nowhere is it more focused than in their 2005 release Rehearsing My Choir, which tells the life story of the siblings' then-83-year-old grandmother Olga Sarantos.
By David T. Little
Published: 8/15/2007
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