In this Book
- Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Epilogue: Experimentalism Meets (Iggy) Pop
- pp. 177-198
- Works Cited
- pp. 251-272
- Production Notes
- p. 284
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520948426
Related ISBN(s)
9780520268500
MARC Record
OCLC
707067667
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No