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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople. (Cambridge History of Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xviii, 818 p. ISBN 0-521-66256-7. $170.] Illustrations, appendices, chronology, bibliographies.
This is an ambitious book. To my knowledge, it is the first attempt to encompass in a single volume all manner of musics practiced in the twentieth century with roots in European and American traditions, including art music, jazz, popular music, entertainment music, film music, and cross-cultural amalgams around the world.
The core of the book consists of twenty-two chapters, each focused on ...