Summary This book addresses the complex world of music criticism during the second half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the relationship between music criticism and pivotal changes in politics, society, technology, and economics. The focus on music criticism should be understood in a very broad sense, as one of the various forms of communication and expression that contributes both to the formulation of judgments, and to a broader discourse on the constructions of music. In addition, the book deepens the topic of music criticism by addressing some defining aspects of the period, such as the development of music for the cinema, the growth of the music industry, and the new media that characterized the turn of the century. The articles are divided into five sections: 'Music Criticism and its Roles', 'Music Criticism and Italian Film Music', 'Music Criticism and Ideology', 'Music Criticism and the Web', and 'Case Studies' (Amiri Baraka, Astor Piazzolla, Louis Andriessen, Dieter Roth, John Cage, and Stravinsky). TABLE OF CONTENTS Massimiliano Locanto Introduction. Music Criticism and Musicology: Depolarising the Debate Aknowledgements Music Critics and Their Roles Abdullah Essa Jamal Khalaf Alan Rawsthorne: The Neglected Chopin Critic Massimiliano Locanto Brother Criticus : Stravinsky 'the Serialist' against Music Criticism H ctor Gasol Calvo Manuel R. de Llauder y la cr tica musical en Barcelona durante los a os '60. Un compositor y cr tico contempor neo de Xavier Montsalvatge David Hurwitz The Twentieth-Century Recording Explosion: Challenges and Opportunities for Criticism Music Criticism and Ideology Lee Ellen Martin Sing a Song of Freedom: Civil Rights and the Reception of Race and Gender in the Music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Carla Cuomo Massimo Mila e l'impegno: interazioni tra critica militante e musicologia dal dopoguerra agli anni Settanta Lada Durakovi! Musica e discorso ideologico: i testi sulla musica durante la formazione del socialismo in Croazia Marita Fornaro Bordolli Criticism, Power and Canon in Uruguay (1950-2000): Between Conservatism and Avant-Garde Music Criticism and Music for Film in Italy Umberto Fasolato Il contributo della critica cinematogra?ca militante italiana alla de?nizione del paesaggio sonoro nei ?lm degli anni Cinquanta Kristjan Stopar - Francesco Verona La musica per ?lm nelle riviste cinematogra?che italiane tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta: i casi di Cinema e Filmcritica Antonio Ferrara La musica nel ?lm (1950): la prima monogra?a italiana sulla musica cinematogra?ca Roberto Calabretto Le pubblicazioni di Sergio Miceli quale parte del dibattito storiogra?co sulla musica per ?lm in Italia Music Criticism and the Web Pedro Ord ez Eslava Facebooking Musicology: apuntes para una ( nueva?) cr tica musical 2.0 Giacomo Albert How are Social Media Reshaping the Critical Debate around Contemporary Music? Stefano Lombardi Vallauri Il trattamento della musica nei blog culturali generalisti italiani Marida Rizzuti La critica musicale in Italia intorno al 2000 fra I lIke It e cinguettii Case Studies Siegwart Reichwald Making it in the Big Apple: Piazzolla's 1980s New York Experience in the Words of The New York Times Ryan Bruce Amiri Baraka's Black Music as an Avant-Garde Manifesto in Jazz Helena Mart n-Nieva Opening Pandora's Cage: 'Open Music' and John Cage in Barcelona, 1960-1970 Lorenzo De Donato Il suono 'inaudito'. Il fenomeno musicale nell'opera di Dieter Roth Eric Taxier Object-Oriented Music Criticism: On Louis Andriessen's De Staat Abstracts Biographies Index of Names