PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The book cover references experimental and contemporary musical notation. Hidden within and connecting the title, these design elements represent the composers whose work was overlooked or didn't break through the barriers of the music establishment.

An alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic

Profiling a dozen pioneering 20th-century composers—including American modernist Ruth Crawford Seeger (mother of Pete and Peggy Seeger), French electronic artist Éliane Radigue, Soviet visionary Galina Ustvolskaya, and Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou—acclaimed journalist and BBC broadcaster Kate Molleson reexamines the canon while bringing to life largely forgotten sonic revolutionaries whose dramatic lives and bursts of creativity played out against a backdrop of seismic geopolitical and social change. These composers, working at a remove from London, Paris, Vienna, and New York, were sidelined and ignored for systemic, structural reasons. This is a landmark alternative history of 20th-century composers; a radical, new, and truly global work of revisionist history. It is a campaigning book that challenges the status quo while introducing you to a world of groundbreaking music.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 6x9

Number of Pages: 352

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Typefaces: Söhne

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Deb Wood

Art Director: Deb Wood

Book Designer: Eli Mock

Jacket/Cover Designer: Eli Mock

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Production Director: Anet Sirna-Bruder

Production Coordinator: Sarah Masterson Hally

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