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Kyle Gann's book provides the necessary tools for an individual who wishess to answer the question, "What is American Music?"
I used to read Gann's column in the Village Voice back in the late 80s, but the scene he described sounded too dry and formalistic to pursue. Now I am finally catching up with contemporary "classical" music and can better appreciate Gann's contribution. His last section is on post-minimalist developments he groups together and calls "totalism." Sad to say, this music seems to have a "minimal" audience outside of small districts in NYC and perhaps the Bay Area, despite its attempt at populism, incorporating rock and intersecting with jazz as well in the so-called Downtown scene (John Zorn, the Knitting Factory, Tzadik Records). Of course avant-garde music will probably always be marginal, and here's to Gann and all those who keep it alive!