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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Music Examples
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: experimental, minimalist, postminimalist? Origins, definitions, communities
PART I HISTORICAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1 Mapping Early Minimalism
2 A Technically Definable Stream of Postminimalism, Its Characteristics and Its Meaning
3 European Minimalism and the Modernist Problem
4 Systems and other Minimalism in Britain
PART II MINIMALISM AND THE THEATRE
5 Minimalism in the Time-Based Arts: dance, film and video
6 From Minimalist Music to Postopera: repetition, representation and (post)modernity in the operas of Philip Glass and Louis Andriessen
7 Accommodating the Threat of the Machine: the act of repetition in live performance
PART III MINIMALISM AND OTHER MEDIA
8 Minimalism, Technology and Electronic Music
9 Minimalist and Postminimalist Music in Multimedia: from the avant-garde to the Blockbuster Film
10 Going with the Flow: minimalism as cultural practice in the USA since 1945
11 Disaffected Sounds, Temporalized Visions: Philip Glass and the audiovisual impulse in postminimalist music
PART IV ANALYTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
12 Analysing Minimalist and Postminimalist Music: an overview of methodologies
13 Reference and Quotation in Minimalist and Postminimalist Music
14 Minimalism and Narrativity: some stories by Steve Reich
15 A Theoretical Model of Postminimalism and Two Brief ‘Case Studies’
PART V MINIMALISM AND BEYOND
16 Defining ‘Spiritual Minimalism’
17 Minimalism and Pop: influence, reaction, consequences
18 Musical Minimalism in Serbia: emergence, beginnings and its creative endeavours
PART VI ISSUES OF PERFORMANCE
19 Clapping Music: a performer’s perspective
20 Performing Minimalist Music
21 Performance Anxiety and Minimalism
22 Some Observations on the Performance of Arvo Pärt’s Choral Music
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