Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture : Invisible Republics / edited by Anabela Duarte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duarte, Anabela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Popular music.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

History of Music.

Popular Music.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

History of Music.

Popular Music.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Summary:

This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the suppressed, and the unconformity of artistic and political undercurrents. Avant-garde and experimental art are international in scope, and their trajectory, as we see it, has been to expand themselves towards a new enlightenment, a critical project, and a rhizomatic entity, albeit with tacit harmony and cohesion. From Bucharest to Paris, London to New York, Paris to Brazil, Cuba, or Chile, to name a few, the same urge for the unknown and anti-art poetics emerged almost simultaneously in every field. We ask how these separate geographical territories (and practices) speak to each other and how this might reshape scholars' historical understanding of European and American modernity. This is an open access book. Anabela Duarte has a PhD and a Post-Doc in American Literature and Culture at the University of Lisbon, and is organizer of the international conference the Invisible Republic: Music, Avant-Garde, and Counterculture. She is editor of the volume Do You Bowles? The Next Generation (Brill 2014).

Contents:

Part 1: Avant-Gardes Revisited

Chapter 1:On Listening to the Avant-Gardes: Introduction

Chapter 2: "Listen to the Colour of your Dreams": Lettrism, Isou and the Hypergraphic Novel

Chapter 3: Adorno, Dada and Music

Chapter 4: Postmodernism, Avant-Garde and Neo-Dadaism: The Legacy of Boguslaw Schaeffer

Chapter 5: Alberto's Greco Vivo-Dito, Lettrism and the Prophecies of the Proper Name

Chapter 6: Gothic as the First Avant-Garde Art

Part 2: Transatlantic Avant-Gardes and Countercultures

Chapter 7: Eugene Jolas and the Revolution of Language

Chapter 8: Dark Night of the Universal: transition (1927-28) as Region of the Modern

Chapter 9: Dada Countercultural Practices at the University of Iowa

Chapter 10: Sunbird Records: From Subculture to Post-subculture

Part 3: New Poetic Languages, Technology and Cinema

Chapter 11: Variations on 4: The Verbivocovisual Sophistication of Dieter Roth's Non-Semantic Poetry

Chapter 12: Aurality and Cyborg Poetry

Chapter 13: On Anti-Viral Music

Chapter 14: Ciao Manhattan: The Rise and Fall of the Underground

Chapter 15: Hidden Influences in Music Technology: An Approach to Coding Practice

Part 4: Politics and Aesthetics of Invisibility

Chapter 16: Invisible Environments: CAyC and Countercultural Cybernetics

Chapter 17: Diário da República: Heavy-metal as a Territory of Ideological Emancipation

Chapter 18: Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy

Part 5: Music, Sound and Literature

Chapter 19: Concrete Voices and Resonant Bodies

Chapter 20: Music, Literature and Cinema: When the Score Guides the Narrative

Chapter 21: The Politics of a Voice: Demetrio Stratos

Chapter 22: Sound as Model: Lucier versus Murail

Chapter 23: Gravitas: An Audiovisual Cadavre Exquis for Times of Lexical Reduction.

ISBN:

9783031695148

3031695143