Otherwise engaged
Subtitle: avant-garde music and the sixties
By: edited by Robert Adlington.
Contributors: Adlington, Robert.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780195336641
Subjects: Music -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century; Avant-garde (Music); Nineteen sixties
Description: This text examines the encounter of avant-garde music and 'the Sixties' across a range of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Avant-garde : some introductory notes on the politics of a label / Hubert van den Berg; title: 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; title: Rethinking the popular. Music is a universal human right : Musica Elettronica Viva / Amy C. Beal; title: The problem of the political in Steve Reich's Come out / Sumanth Gopinath ; The politics of Presque rien / Eric Drott; title: Politicising performance. ONCE and the sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; Scream against the sky : Japanese avant-garde music in the sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett; title: The challenge of institutionalisation. 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.