The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: experimental, minimalist, postminimalist? Origins, definitions, communities - Kyle Gann, Keith Potter and Pwyll ap Siôn
• PART I HISTORICAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• 1 Mapping Early Minimalism - Keith Potter
• 2 A Technically Definable Stream of Postminimalism, Its Characteristics and Its Meaning - Kyle Gann
• 3 European Minimalism and the Modernist Problem - Maarten Beirens
• 4 Systems and other Minimalism in Britain - Virginia Anderson
• PART II MINIMALISM AND THE THEATRE
• 5 Minimalism in the Time-Based Arts: dance, film and video - Dean Suzuki
• 6 From Minimalist Music to Postopera: repetition, representation and (post)modernity in the operas of Philip Glass and Louis Andriessen - Jelena Novak
• 7 Accommodating the Threat of the Machine: the act of repetition in live performance - Jeremy Peyton Jones
• PART III MINIMALISM AND OTHER MEDIA
• 8 Minimalism, Technology and Electronic Music - Richard Glover
• 9 Minimalist and Postminimalist Music in Multimedia: from the avant-garde to the Blockbuster Film - Rebecca M. Doran Eaton
• 10 Going with the Flow: minimalism as cultural practice in the USA since 1945 - Robert Fink
• 11 Disaffected Sounds, Temporalized Visions: Philip Glass and the audiovisual impulse in postminimalist music - John Richardson and Susanna Välimäki
• PART IV ANALYTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
• 12 Analysing Minimalist and Postminimalist Music: an overview of methodologies - Tristian Evans
• 13 Reference and Quotation in Minimalist and Postminimalist Music - Pwyll ap Siôn
• 14 Minimalism and Narrativity: some stories by Steve Reich - John Pymm
• 15 A Theoretical Model of Postminimalism and Two Brief ‘Case Studies’ - Marija Masnikosa
• PART V MINIMALISM AND BEYOND
• 16 Defining ‘Spiritual Minimalism’ - David Dies
• 17 Minimalism and Pop: influence, reaction, consequences - Jonathan W. Bernard
• 18 Musical Minimalism in Serbia: emergence, beginnings and its creative endeavours - Dragana Stojanović-Novičić
• PART VI ISSUES OF PERFORMANCE
• 19 Clapping Music: a performer's perspective - Russell Hartenberger
• 20 Performing Minimalist Music - John Harle
• 21 Performance Anxiety and Minimalism - Sarah Cahill
• 22 Some Observations on the Performance of Arvo Pärt's Choral Music - Paul Hillier
• Select Bibliography