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oapen-20.500.12657-602862024-03-27T14:14:55Z The Names of Minimalism Nickleson, Patrick Minimalism, early minimalism, Tony Conrad, Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, authorship, music history, historiography, radicalism, leftist historiography, Jacques Rancière, drone, May '68, metonymy, Theatre of Eternal Music, punk, no wave, new wave, New York thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories—but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes. Through examinations of the droning of the Theatre of Eternal Music, Reich’s Pendulum Music, Glass’s work for multiple organs, the austere performances of punk and no wave bands, and Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca’s works for massed electric guitars, Nickleson argues for authorship as always impure, buzzing, and indistinct. Expanding the place of Jacques Rancière’s philosophy within musicology, Nickleson draws attention to disciplinary practices of guarding compositional authority against artists who set out to undermine it. The book reimagines the canonic artists and works of minimalism as “(early) minimalism,” to show that art music histories refuse to take seriously challenges to conventional authorship as a means of defending the very category “art music.” Ultimately, Nickleson asks where we end up if we imagine the early minimalist project—artists forming bands to perform their own music, rejecting the score in favor of recording, making extensive use of magnetic type as compositional and archival medium, hosting performances in lofts and art galleries rather than concert halls—not as a utopian moment within a 1960s counterculture doomed to fail, but as the beginning of a process with a long and influential afterlife. 2022-12-19T10:26:35Z 2022-12-19T10:26:35Z 2023 book 9780472133284 9780472039098 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60286 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780472903009.pdf https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-03909-8-highres.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-03909-8-frontcover.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-03909-8-thumb.jpg University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.10207791 10.3998/mpub.10207791 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472133284 9780472039098 266 open access
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Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories—but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes. Through examinations of the droning of the Theatre of Eternal Music, Reich’s Pendulum Music, Glass’s work for multiple organs, the austere performances of punk and no wave bands, and Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca’s works for massed electric guitars, Nickleson argues for authorship as always impure, buzzing, and indistinct.
Expanding the place of Jacques Rancière’s philosophy within musicology, Nickleson draws attention to disciplinary practices of guarding compositional authority against artists who set out to undermine it. The book reimagines the canonic artists and works of minimalism as “(early) minimalism,” to show that art music histories refuse to take seriously challenges to conventional authorship as a means of defending the very category “art music.” Ultimately, Nickleson asks where we end up if we imagine the early minimalist project—artists forming bands to perform their own music, rejecting the score in favor of recording, making extensive use of magnetic type as compositional and archival medium, hosting performances in lofts and art galleries rather than concert halls—not as a utopian moment within a 1960s counterculture doomed to fail, but as the beginning of a process with a long and influential afterlife.
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