Sound commitments : avant-garde music and the sixties / edited by Robert Adlington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adlington, Robert., Editor, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Music.

Avant-garde (Music).

Nineteen sixties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

List of contributors Introduction: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties 1. Avant-garde-Some Introductory Notes on the Politics of a Label 2. ""Demolish Serious Culture!"": Henry Flynt and Workers World Party 3. Forms of Opposition at the 'Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel' Concert 4. Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent 5. ""Music is a Universal Human Right"": Musica Elettronica Viva 6. The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out 8. ONCE and the Sixties 9. ""Scream Against the Sky"": Japanese Avant-garde Music in th

Contents:

Avant-garde : some introductory notes on the politics of a label / Hubert F. van den Berg

Ideologies. "Demolish serious culture!" : Henry Flynt and Workers World Party / Benjamin Piekut ; Forms of opposition at the "politiek-demonstratief experimenteel" concert / Robert Adlington ; Aesthetic theories and revolutionary practice : Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in dissent / Beate Kutschke

Rethinking the popular. "Music is a universal human right" : Musica Elettronica Viva / Amy C. Beal

The problem of the political in Steve Reich's Come out / Sumanth Gopinath ; The politics of Presque rien / Eric Drott

Politicising performance. ONCE and the sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; "Scream against the sky" : Japanese avant-garde music in the sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett

The challenge of institutionalization. After the October revolution : the jazz avant-garde in New York, 1964-65 / Bernard Gendron ; American cultural diplomacy and the mediation of avant-garde music / Danielle Fosler-Lussier ; From Scriabin to Pink Floyd : the ANS synthesizer and the politics of Soviet music between thaw and stagnation / Peter J. Schmelz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-045065-7

0-19-533665-8

1-281-98707-7

9786611987077

0-19-971436-3

OCLC:

476244927