@article{339397, note = {Includes index.}, author = {Rich, Alan.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/339397}, title = {American pioneers : Ives to Cage and beyond /}, publisher = {Phaidon,}, abstract = {American Pioneers presents a survey of that peculiarly American innovatory spirit as manifest in the nation's music. On the east coast, early in the twentieth century, this spirit was captured by Charles Ives (whose music lay virtually ignored and unperformed until the world caught up with him, forty years later). On the west coast, Henry Cowell and John Cage encountered similar critical resistance. Their pioneering flair was an act of defiance: Americans throwing off the shackles of European tradition and inventing a new language, seeking to redefine what could or could not be embraced by the term 'music'.}, recid = {339397}, pages = {240 p. :}, address = {London :}, year = {1995}, }