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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells. Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and New York lofts, minimalism spread to become the most popular experimental music style of the late 20th century. The movement originally involved dozens of composers, although only four?Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and, less visibly if more seminally, La Monte Young?emerged to become publicly associated with it in America. In Europe, its chief exponents were Louis Andriessen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Steve Martland, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, and John Tavener. The term "minimalist music" was derived around 1970 by Michael Nyman from the concept of minimalism, which was earlier applied to the visual arts. For some of the music, especially that which transforms itself according to strict rules, the term "process music" has also been used. ... Read more

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BOMB 81, Fall 2002, featuring: Interviews with Jane Hammond by David Lehman, Walid Ra'ad by Alan Gilbert, Martina Kudlacek by Robert Gardner, Mahmoud Darwish by Raja Shehadeh, Jeffrey Eugenides by Jonathan Safran Foer, Steve Reich and Beryl Korot by Julia Wolfe, and Christopher Shinn by David Greenspan. Essays on Caio Fonseca by Peter Elley, Emily Eveleth by Betsy Sussler, The Orchard Group by Janet Olmsted Cross, and Lenore Malen by Jonathan Ames. Fiction and poetry by Sandra Cisneros, Gershom Scholem, Silvia Baron Supervielle, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Scott Graham, Luis Eduardo Lopez, Matilde Daviu, Jenifer Berman, and Patricia Spears Jones. ... Read more