| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
California studies in 20th-century music ; 11
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California studies in 20th-century music ; 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-272) and index. |
| Contents |
When orchestras attack! : John Cage meets the New York Philharmonic -- Demolish serious culture! : Henry Flynt meets the New York avant-garde -- October or thermidor? : the Jazz Composers Guild meets New York -- Murder by cello : Charlotte Moorman meets John Cage. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Music) -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Avant-garde (Music) |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Piekut, Benjamin, 1975- Experimentalism otherwise. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011 9780520268500 (DLC) 2010035094 (OCoLC)657223896 |
| ISBN |
9780520948426 (electronic book) |
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0520948424 (electronic book) |
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1283277638 |
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9781283277631 |
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9780520268500 |
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0520268504 |
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9780520268517 |
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0520268512 |
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