Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties
- Editor: Adlington, Robert
a wide-ranging survey, and a valuable one...Deftly editied by Robert Adlington...throws a revealing light on a movement with too many manifestos in 'a decade that saw some of its most singular... — More…
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Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties
- 1 Avant-garde-Some Introductory Notes on the Politics of a Label
- 2 Demolish Serious Culture!: Henry Flynt and Workers World Party
- 3 Forms of Opposition at the 'Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel' Concert
- 4 Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent
- 5 Music is a Universal Human Right: Musica Elettronica Viva
- 6 The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out
- 8 ONCE and the Sixties
- 9 Scream Against the Sky: Japanese Avant-garde Music in the Sixties
- 10 After the October Revolution: The Jazz Avant-garde in New York, 1964-65
- 11 American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music
- 12 From Scriabin to Pink Floyd: the ANS Synthesizer and the Politics of Soviet
- Index