“My Answer to What Music Theatre Can Be”: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave

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Research Article| April 01 2017 “My Answer to What Music Theatre Can Be”: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave Ryan Ebright Ryan Ebright Ryan Ebright serves as an instructor of musicology at Bowling Green State University. He earned his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and also holds an M.M. degree in musicology and vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory. His research focuses on music for the voice, stage, and screen, with an emphasis on contemporary opera, minimalism, and nineteenth- century lieder. His current project, Making American Opera for the Modern Age, centers on the negotiation of cultural politics, artistic innovation, and the politics of institution and genre in the creation of new American operas from the 1980s to the present. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2017) 35 (1): 29–50. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.35.1.0029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ryan Ebright; “My Answer to What Music Theatre Can Be”: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave. American Music 1 January 2017; 35 (1): 29–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.35.1.0029 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.