TY - BOOK ID - 77863857 TI - Repeating ourselves : American minimal music as cultural practice PY - 2005 SN - 1282358170 0520938941 1423727584 9786612358173 1598757857 9780520938946 9781423727583 9780520240360 0520240367 9780520245501 0520245504 9781598757859 9781282358171 6612358173 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - Minimal music KW - Music and society KW - Meditative music KW - Minimalism (Music) KW - Minimalist music KW - Music, Minimal KW - Repetitive music KW - Systematic music KW - Social aspects. KW - History and criticism. KW - advertising campaigns. KW - america. KW - american music. KW - consumer society. KW - cultural practices. KW - disco. KW - easy listening. KW - hi fi technology. KW - mass consumerism. KW - mass media. KW - minimal music. KW - minimalism. KW - minimalist aesthetics. KW - music and culture. KW - music historians. KW - music studies. KW - musical minimalism. KW - musicians. KW - musicology. KW - nonfiction. KW - philip glass. KW - popular music studies. KW - postwar america. KW - repetitive music. KW - revisionist account. KW - steve reich. KW - terry riley. KW - united states. KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77863857 AB - Where did musical minimalism come from-and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970's disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education. ER -