La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros and the emergence of the American postmodern drone aesthetic, 1957

La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros and the emergence of the American postmodern drone aesthetic, 1957–1964. Tote, M. E. Master's thesis, Tufts University, 2010.

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Between 1957 and 1964 a postmodern drone aesthetic emerged in America with the music of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Pauline Oliveros. Amid an increasing postwar skepticism about music grand narratives these composers composed and performed music that focuses on the gradual unfolding of harmonic progressions which may take hours, days, or even years until completion. This approach to composition challenged academic integral serialism at the crux of high modernism and made a radical shift from traditional methods of composition to an emphasis on improvisatory performance and listening. The drone music of these composers reveals a heightened awareness of their sonic surroundings, of which was/is permeated with technologically produced drones, as well as an integration of non-western ideologies and the exploitation of electronic instruments' inherent ability to sustain tones.

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