Musical migration and imperial New York : early Cold War scenes / Brigid Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Brigid Maureen, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

New material histories of music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--New York (State)--New York--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Avant-garde (Music)--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Music).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 379 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Through archival work and storytelling synthesis, Music Migration and Imperial New York revises, subverts, and supplements many inherited narratives about experimental music and arts in postwar New York into a sweeping new whole. From the urban street-level via music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange, this book seeks to redraw the geographies of experimental art and so to reveal the imperial dynamics, as well as profoundly racialized and gendered power relations, that shaped and continue to shape the discourses and practices of modern music in the United States. Beginning with the material conditions of power that structured the cityscape of New York in the early Cold War years (ca. 1957 to 1963), Brigid Cohen's book encompasses a considerably wider range of people and practices than is usual in studies of the music of this period. It looks at a range of artistic practices (concert music, electronic music, jazz, performance art) and actors (Varèse, Mingus, Yoko Ono, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas) as they experimented with new modes of creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : A recent history of music, citizenship, and American empire

Third space, scene of subjection : Mingus and Varèse at Greenwich House

Cold War Acropolis I : Ussachevsky, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the CPEMC

Cold War Acropolis II : Toyama and El-Dabh at the CPEMC

A counter-discourse of Orientalism : Ono in opera

The haunting of empires : Maciunas, Fluxus, and the Bloodlands

Concluding thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780226818016

0226818012

OCLC:

1267402296