Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music by Joshua S. Walden 0190653507 9780190653507

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• ISBN 10:0190653507
• ISBN 13:9780190653507
• Author:Joshua S. Walden

Joshua S. Walden’s Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions of identity have changed alongside increasing innovation in musical composition as well as in the uses of abstraction, mixed media, and other novel techniques in the field of visual portraiture. In the absence of physical likeness, an element typical of portraiture that cannot be depicted in sound, composers have experimented with methods of constructing other attributes of identity in music, such as character, biography, and profession.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Musical and Literary Portraiture
Chapter 2: Musical Portraits of Visual Artists
Chapter 3: Listening in on Composers’ Self-Portraits
Chapter 4: Celebrity, Music, and the Multimedia Portrait

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