Author: MELLERS, WILFRID.
Title: Music in a New Found Land. Themes and Developments in the History of American Music.
Description: London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1964. 1st edition. "American music, like American history, has its own special flavour and in a variety of ways expresses the rich diversity of American life - the sheer engergy, the ebullience, the loneliness and especially through Negro spirituals and some of jazz, the suffering and tragedy..With the more extreme experimentalists, Harry Partch and his cloud chamber bowls, John Cage and Morton Feldman, the author discusses whether this music is a prelude to the disappearance of the artist as communicator and professional, or whether it is a transitional stage before the new 'communicators' can emerge." Pp.xvi/543, black & white frontispiece + 22 further pages of black & white mainly portrait photos. Green cloth, dustwrapper has slight edge wear. VG/VG.

Keywords: Mellers Music New Found Land Themes Developments History American Music Ives Ruggles Copland Riegger Partch Cage Feldman Barber Foss Country Blues Rag Jazz Gershwin Bernstein 43503 Music


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