Gopinath, Sumanth - Rethinking Reich

Rethinking Reich brings together new perspectives on one of America's greatest contemporary composers. Offering a critical engagement with Steve Reich's prominence in the numerous, overlapping, and contentious worlds of contemporary classical music, these tightly focused and multifarious essays reassess the composer's contribution to music in the twentieth century.

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CONTENTS

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Reich in Context
Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Sion
Part I Political, Aesthetic, and Analytical Concerns
1. Departing to other spheres: Psychedelic Science Fiction, Perspectival Embodiment, and the Hermeneutics of Steve Reich's Four Organs
-- by Sumanth Gopinath
2. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Resulting Patterns, Extended Melodies, Eight Lines, and the influence of the West on Steve Reich
-- by Pwyll ap Sion
3. Different Tracks: Narrative sequence, Harmonic (Dis)continuity and Structural Organization in Steve Reich's Different Trains and The Cave
-- by Maarten Beirens
4. We are not trying to make a political piece: The Reconciliatory Aesthetic of Steve Reich's The Cave
-- by Ryan Ebright
Part II Repetition, Speech, and Identity
5. Repetition, Speech, and Authority in Steve Reich's Jewish Music
-- by Robert Fink
6. Steve Reich's Dramatic Sound Collage for the Harlem Six: Towards a Prehistory of Come Out
-- by John Pymm
7. From World War Two to the War on Terror: An Examination of Steve Reich's Docu-Music Style in WTC 9/11
-- by Celia Fitz-Walter
Part III Reich Revisited: Sketch Studies
8. Save as ... >: Hybrid Resources in the Steve Reich Collection
-- by Matthias Kassel
9. Sketching a New Tonality: A Preliminary Assessment of Steve Reich's Sketches for Music for 18 Musicians in Telling the Story of This Work's Approach to Tonality
-- by Keith Potter
10. Improvisation, Two Variations on a Watermelon, and a New Timeline for Piano Phase
-- by David Chapman
11. Steve Reich's Counterpoints and Computers: Rethinking the 1980s
-- by Twila Bakker
Part IV Beyond the West: Bali, Buddhism and Africa
12. Afro-Electric Counterpoint
-- by Martin Scherzinger
13. That's All It Does: Steve Reich and Balinese Gamelan
-- by Michael Tenzer
14. Machine Fantasies into Human Events: Reich and Technology in the 1970s
-- by Kerry O'Brien