{"product_id":"colin-mcphee","title":"Colin McPhee","description":"Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s. But his most important accomplishments emerged from his devotion to the music of Bali. \u003cp\u003eAfter hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali to learn more. There, he worked closely with Western anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture in classic texts like \u003ci\u003eMusic of Bali\u003c\/i\u003e while integrating Balinese and Western music into an imaginative hybrid that anticipated work by John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating portrait of an unconventional artist-scholar, \u003ci\u003eColin McPhee\u003c\/i\u003e evocatively looks at key issues in composition and ethnomusicology while describing the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend a new musical language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242408890712,"sku":"9780252071805","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780252071805_5e2b444d-f92b-422d-9997-5bbadd467744.jpg?v=1779257716","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/colin-mcphee","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}