Avant garde
Subtitle: an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez
By: Robin Maconie
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810883123
Subjects: Avant-garde (Music); History and criticism; Music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The search for King Kong; title: Sacks's agnosia; title: How not to listen; title: Recording angel; title: The secret life of savages; title: About Wittgenstein; title: La guerre du destin; title: Boulez in the underworld; title: The French connection; title: The poetics of Milton; title: An upside down unicycle; title: Alfred North Whitehead; title: Speaking in tongues; title: Two studies; title: Recent intelligence; title: Art and realpolitik.