From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived
on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as
outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the
tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks
reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American
society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three
notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the
eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and
Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote
music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized
as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes
on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in
all types of American music-classical, popular, and jazz-and how it
has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from
John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition,
Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in
American culture and the tension between individualism and
community in the American consciousness.
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