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Article: Minimalism: Origins.
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By Edward Strickland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.[312 p. ISBN 0-253-35499-4.]
Edward Strickland's Minimalism: Origins is the first study that attempts to put minimalism in a historical perspective across various artistic expressions. Strickland has already covered minimalist musicians La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass in his American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), a beneficial companion collection of interviews (all but one culled from his Fanfare articles), which he cites heavily. The present book considers the shared origins of minimalism in the downtown scene of ...