Musicology Annotation << Back American minimal music and the art of crossovers: parallels and interactions Krom Anna E. The article is devoted to the problem of interaction of the art of crossovers and American minimal musical, characterized by symbiotic nature and free crossing of borders between academic and mass genres. The diffuse nature of minimalism allows it to fit into the wide space of creativity of crossovers. Musicians have just as successfully synthesized phenomena that previously seemed incompatible: experimental avantgarde art, jazz and rock music. Minimalism organically existed in the context of the club culture of the 1960–1970s, and within the framework of the high avantgarde, it was claimed by both the intellectual audience and the general public. Minimalist writing techniques – phase shift technique, tape-delay, sampling – have become fi rmly established in the technical arsenal of modern academic and mass art. The fruitful interaction of minimalism with the movement of crossovers is indicated by the further fate of the direction and its prominent representatives (Reich, Glass). Keywords: American minimal music, crossover, rock music, jazz. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.12.2018.316 Contacts: E-mail: yannakrom@yandex.ru Pp. 08-11.