{"product_id":"music-downtown-writings-from-the-village-voice-9780520229822","title":"Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kyle Gann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice \u003c\/i\u003eby Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles-including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures-Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613271048343,"sku":"9780520229822","price":2555.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520229822.webp?v=1775083902","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/music-downtown-writings-from-the-village-voice-9780520229822","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}