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Article: Counterpoint: A response to Bernard.(Jonathan Bernard)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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IN THE COURSE of developing elegant and provocative ways for hearing and thinking about minimal music, Jonathan Bernard proposes certain criteria for music-analytical relevance and cultural authority that, while he did not intend to talk about such things, nevertheless inform and inflect his work in ways that give me pause. In my "Yes I Wrote It ...", I referred to these criteria and some other incidental comments as "hotspots" and "fires." Though I have no doubt that identity politics cause Bernard as much discomfort as they do me, these fires flicker near this very combustible stuff. They threaten the integrity of the analytical foundations Bernard constructs and, if ...
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