Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Benjamin Piekut
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 timeNew York City, 1964Piekut 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.
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Año:
2011
Editorial:
University of California Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
296
ISBN 10:
0520268504
ISBN 13:
9780520268500
Archivo:
PDF, 3.95 MB
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english, 2011