Into the maelstrom
Subtitle: music, improvisation and the dream of freedom : before 1970
By: David Toop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781628927696; 9781501314513
Subjects: Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Improvisation (Music); History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); History
Description: Introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s; and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography (page 318-320), and index.
Table of contents: title: (only begin) A descent; title: Free bodies; title: Collective subjectivities 1; title: Overture to dawn; title: Collective subjectivities 2; title: Into the hot; title: Solitary subjectivities; title: Troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes; title: Collective objectivities; title: Imaginary birds said to live in paradise; title: Postscript : The ballad of John and Yoko; title: Rain falling down on old Gods.