It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by Michael Broyles
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From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that...
Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by Michael Broyles is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music aloud.
Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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