Experimentalism Otherwise The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits - California Studies in 20Th-Century Music

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.

ISBN:	9780520268517
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	04 Apr 2011
DEWEY:	780.9747109046
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	296
Weight:	412g
Height:	227mm
Width:	151mm
Spine width:	19mm

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