Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture 1973-1980 [Peter Garland]

[Deep America] [Cultural Critique] [Experimental]

Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture 1973-1980 

Peter Garland

Soundings Press, NM. 1981. First edition thus. Some minor dings to the edges, rubbing to the front and rear boards, but otherwise a beautiful copy of this scarcity. An excellent copy, signed by the author.

About the author:

"Garland was a student of James Tenney and Harold Budd. Much of his work could be considered post-minimal, although many of his post-minimal works such as "The Days Run Away" (1971) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works. He is also an expert on Native American music, and on the music of Silvestre Revueltas. He is the author of Gone Walkabout: Essays 1991-. Garland started his Soundings Press series in 1971 after attending a publishing workshop with Dick Higgins at CalArts"

For the experimentalists out there, this is about as good as it gets. Deeply insightful essays on the stifling forces that wage war with the creative spirit in the USA. What do we do? We run. Garland wants freedom. 14 insightful essays running the gamut from Harry Partch, to John Cage, to Edgar Varese, and onward. Quite proud to offer a personalized copy of this exceedingly rare dive into American composition.