Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits Volume 11 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520268500)

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.

Author: Benjamin Piekut
ISBN-10: 0520268504
ISBN-13: 9780520268500
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2011
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d