United States
- George Antheil (1900–1959)
- Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Bauer 2004, 121)
- John J. Becker (1886–1961)
- John Cage (1912–1992) (Bernstein 2002, passim; Williams 2002, 241) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Henry Cowell (1897–1965)
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
- George Crumb (born 1929) (Petersen 2010, 311, 313)
- Vernon Duke (1903–1969) (Holden 2010, 296)
- Philip Glass (born 1937) (Schwarz 1990, 247) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Lou Harrison (1917–2003)
- Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
- Charles Ives (1874–1954) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)
- Donald Martino (1931–2005) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
- Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972) (Gagné 2012, 211)
- Lou Reed (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
- Steve Reich (born 1936) (Schwarz 1990, 247, 271 ) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)
- Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Carl Ruggles (1876–1971)
- Charles Seeger (1886–1979)
- Roger Sessions (1896–1985)
- Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)
- Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
- Brian Wilson (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
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“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
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—William Cobbett (1762–1835)
“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Europe and the U.K. are yesterday’s world. Tomorrow is in the United States.”
—R.W. ‘Tiny’ Rowland (b. 1917)