From Revolutionary to Normative: A Secret History of Dada and Surrealism in American Music
A new article published earlier this month by noted Philadelphian composer and scholar, Matthew Greenbaum and here He also studied with Wolpe which makes him uniquely qualified to write this article. I Loved Well Those Cities is a spectactular work that spun its way through my ipod for a while. A Floating Island is also really well done. Musicians are uniquely qualified to write because they are constantly required to be rooted in the past, history, to analyze their responses to the music they are writing and playing. Good musicians, and i think Greenbaum lands squarely in this category, move into a philosophy of music as informing their historical perspective. Why else would one write an article on Dada and Surrealism if the importance of past events bearing on the present and the future was not considered? The point is not to simply apply the understanding of the past to a single area, such as music or art, but to an overarching understanding of one's conection to the present day. This stance is definitively influenced by Postman's work, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, which I would highly recommend.
A new article published earlier this month by noted Philadelphian composer and scholar, Matthew Greenbaum and here He also studied with Wolpe which makes him uniquely qualified to write this article. I Loved Well Those Cities is a spectactular work that spun its way through my ipod for a while. A Floating Island is also really well done. Musicians are uniquely qualified to write because they are constantly required to be rooted in the past, history, to analyze their responses to the music they are writing and playing. Good musicians, and i think Greenbaum lands squarely in this category, move into a philosophy of music as informing their historical perspective. Why else would one write an article on Dada and Surrealism if the importance of past events bearing on the present and the future was not considered? The point is not to simply apply the understanding of the past to a single area, such as music or art, but to an overarching understanding of one's conection to the present day. This stance is definitively influenced by Postman's work, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, which I would highly recommend.
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