Wim Mertens
American Minimal Music (Book)
LabelKahn & AverillGenreExperimental
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The first book which deals in depth with the school of American repetitive music, better known as minimal music. The author discusses in detail the work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass and places them in the tradition of Western music. Minimal music thus emerges as the latest stage in a development leading from Schoenberg, Webem, Stockhausen and Cage.
Considering the philosophical thinking of Deleuze and Lyotard, the representatives of the so-called French 'libidinal philosophy', and of Adorno, the author examines the degree to which the 'ecstatic dimension' is present in this music or is even consciously introduced into it.
