Transpacific Experiments : Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaneda, Miki.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

Intermedia art--an avant-garde multimedia practice that combines sound and moving images--took root in Japan alongside other places in the 1960s.In Transpacific Experiments , Miki Kaneda analyzes intermedia as a practice that gives form to errant possibilities, unfolding in spaces of the everyday, to offer nuanced insights into the global flow.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

About the Cover Image

Notes on Names and Language

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue. The "John Cage Shock" was a Fiction: The 1960s Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Music as a Transnational Practice

Introduction. The Inappropriate Avant-Garde: Intermedia Art in 1960s Japan

Chapter 1. The Mundane Archive: The ba of Sogetsu Art Center's Printed Matter

Chapter 2. Archival Absences and Conditional Listening: How Jazz Shaped Experimental Music in 1960s Japan

Chapter 3. Cross Talk Intermedia: The Aesthetics of Miscommunication, and Cultural Diplomacy

Chapter 4. Expo'70: The Pinnacle of Intermedia, or, the Avant-Garde Faces Some Conundrums

Chapter 5. Talismans and Relics: Intermedia and EXPO in the Twenty-First Century

Coda: Imagining a Transpacific Avant-Garde, of the Sea

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Kaneda, Miki Transpacific Experiments

ISBN:

9780472222490

OCLC:

1540978381