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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits Volume 11

Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits Volume 11

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Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music, Book 11

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ISBN10: 0520268504
ISBN13: 9780520268500
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 4 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by experimental in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time--New York City, 1964--Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt's demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.

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