Musik der USA

60 years after the last coherent German-language introduction to the music of the USA, this presentation attempts to bring together the many and varied preconditions and strands of development in American music history and to convey them clearly to a broad readership.

With this first German-language publication on North American music history, the two authors (an Americanist and a musicologist) have achieved a unique balancing act: to provide an overview, not chronologically but in (parallel) narrative strands and facets, which traces the breadth of events without getting lost in individual aspects.

The four chapters of the book are intended as forays through the fascinating landscape of American music: varieties of the popular, cultural networks, autonomy efforts in North American music history and the 20th century as the "American century". The focus was on the desire to make the "secret choreography" of American music more transparent. The book therefore largely dispenses with discussions of works in favour of contextualizations. The chapters are written in such a way that they can also be read on their own.

A synoptic chronicle and the selected bibliography attempt, as far as possible, to give an indication of the extensive panorama.

"The authors have achieved a tremendous feat: a book that sets standards and explores the immense wealth of material discursively rather than systematically." (Otto Paul Burkhardt, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 4/19)

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