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A Brief History of New Music

by Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Conversations across postwar music

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Conversations across postwar music

Hans Ulrich Obrist assembles interviews with musicians and composers whose work shaped music from the 1950s through the 1990s. The collection spans early postwar avant-garde composers, including Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, alongside figures such as Yoko Ono and Brian Eno. Its historical view comes through conversations with practitioners, making the book a record of varied perspectives on a period of musical change rather than a single, continuous survey.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in postwar music history and criticism
  • Those exploring avant-garde and electroacoustic music
  • Readers who enjoy interviews with musicians and composers

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Postwar musicAvant-garde compositionElectroacoustic musicMusicians and composers in conversation

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Book overview

Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with the foremost musicians and composers of the mid- to late 20th-century, from Yoko Ono to Brian Eno

Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's A Brief History of Curating, this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s-1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde composers of the early postwar period such as Elliot Carter, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen; pioneers of electroacoustic music such as Fran
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