Experimentalism Otherwise - Benjamin Piekut
| Автор: | Benjamin Piekut |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | California Studies in 20th-Century Music |
| Жанр произведения: | Изобразительное искусство, фотография |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780520948426 |
In <i>Experimental Otherwise</i>, 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 <i>Atlas Eclipticalis</i>; 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.