TY - BOOK ID - 46195869 TI - Rethinking Reich AU - Gopinath, Sumanth S. AU - Pwyll ap Siôn PY - 2019 SN - 9780190605292 9780190605285 0190605294 0190605286 0190605316 0190605308 PB - New York, NY Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Minimal music KW - History and criticism. KW - Reich, Steve, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Meditative music KW - Minimalism (Music) KW - Minimalist music KW - Music, Minimal KW - Repetitive music KW - Systematic music KW - Music KW - History and criticism KW - Reich, Stephen, KW - Reich, Steve KW - Reich, Stephen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46195869 AB - Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer. His music, however, remains largely underresearched. Rethinking Reich redresses this imbalance, providing a space for prominent and emerging scholars to reassess the composer's contribution to music in the twentieth century. Featuring fourteen tightly focused and multifarious essays on various aspects of Reich's work — ranging from analytical, aesthetic, and archival studies to sociocultural, philosophical, and ethnomusicological reflections — this edited volume reveals new insights, including those enabled by access to the growing Steve Reich Collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation archive, the premier institution for primary research on twentieth-century and contemporary classical music. This volume takes on the timely task of challenging the hegemony of Reich's own articulate and convincing discourses on his music, as found in his Writings on Music (OUP, 2002), and breaks new ground in the broader field of minimalism studies ER -