The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 818 p.
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music is a first appraisal of the
development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of
the twenty-first. This wide-ranging and eclectic book traces the progressive
fragmentation of the European ‘art’ tradition, and its relocation as one
tradition among many at the century’s end. While the focus is on Western
traditions, both ‘art’ and popular, these are situated within the context of
world music, including a case study of the interaction of ‘art’ and traditional
musics in post-colonial Africa. An international authorship brings a wide
variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set
musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological
change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the
history of music.