| FB-52910-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Kyle Eugene Gann | American Music After 1980 - Trends, Ideas, Meanings, Analyses | 1/1/2007 - 12/31/2007 | $40,000.00 | Kyle | Eugene | Gann | | | | Bard College | Annandale-on-Hudson | NY | 12504-9800 | USA | 2006 | Music History and Criticism | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
I am writing a book on developments in American music since minimalism, covering the period from 1978 to the present. Relying on hundreds of unpublished scores ranging from artrock to the Bang on a Can festival, I will chart the perilous course composers born in the 1940s and ‘50s have navigated between their training in serialism - perceptually fascinating but arguably elitist and increasingly irrelevant - and their vernacular culture in pop music, which they have embraced in sympathy without imitating directly. In the 1980s and ‘90s, tonality returned, but rhythm took on a whole new complexity, springing forward from the multitempo conceptions of Henry Cowell and Conlon Nancarrow. This music is long overdue for public explication. |