For instance, John Cale actually enters the narrative on page 508, and the epilogue at page 542 slips in references to Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, and Nico Muhly (best known to DiS readers as Antony Hegarty’s recent collaborator, and Will Oldham’s, for The Letting Go). You know that metaphor in which the lifespan of the Earth is a 12-hour clock, and multi-cellular life appears at 6 minutes to midnight, and hominids appear some time in the last second? (Don’t quote me on that.) Point is: Western “Classical” music has been around for several hundred years something equally broad, called “Minimalism”, has been around since the mid-20th century, and it was only at the end of the 1960s that its experiments started feeding into what was by then “popular” music (the likes of Strauss and Mahler no longer being celebrities).
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