Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits - Couverture souple

Piekut, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520268512 ISBN 13 : 9780520268517

Editeur : University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time--New York City, 1964--Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt's demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Piekut is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Cornell University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520268512
• ISBN 13: 9780520268517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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