by Edward Green and Arnold Perey:
"Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology"
Published in: R. Parncutt, A. Kessler & F. Zimmer (Eds.) Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM04) Graz/Austria, 15-18 April, 2004 http://gewi.uni-graz.at/~cim04/.
Review in The Journal of Music and Meaning (JMM), by Edward Green:
Gamelan Gong Kebyar: the Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music, by Michael Tenzer.
(Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 2000. xxv, 492 pp.)
"In this innovative, carefully reasoned book, Michael Tenzer provides a comprehensive, technical account of modern Balinese music. Surprisingly, he approaches the task in a boldly syncretic manner, making coordinated use of indigenous Balinese musical concepts as well as Western analytic tools....The central fact about this book is that it is thrilling, ear-opening, mind-enhancing: a magisterial work". (To read more, click here.)
from Edward Green's on-going column in New Music Connoisseur:
The Cambodian Aesthetics of a “Spiral Composer”—an Introduction to the Music of Chinary Ung
"Born in Cambodia in 1942, Ung came to the Unites States in 1964 to study clarinet at Manhattan School of Music. Ten years later, he received a doctorate in musical composition from Columbia University, where his principal teacher was Chou Wen-chung. In this initial stage of his career, Ung’s music was largely Western and abstractly modernist in orientation. But then a more unique style arose—a more personal and a more profound style. It emerged out of an intense engagement by Ung with the reality of the Cambodian Holocaust. As Ung has said, his purpose changed; it was now to 'employ music as an agent of spiritual healing.'...” (To read the entire column, click here.)
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