Sound commitments [electronic resource] : avant-garde music and the sixties / edited by Robert Adlington.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xi, 292 p. : ill., musicISBN:- 019533664X (alk. paper)
- 9780195336641 (alk. paper)
- 0195336658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780195336658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 780.9/04 22
- ML3916 .S66 2009eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Avant-garde : some introductory notes on the politics of a label / Hubert F. van den Berg -- Ideologies. "Demolish serious culture!" : Henry Flynt and Workers World Party / Benjamin Piekut ; Forms of opposition at the "politiek-demonstratief experimenteel" concert / Robert Adlington ; Aesthetic theories and revolutionary practice : Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in dissent / Beate Kutschke -- Rethinking the popular. "Music is a universal human right" : Musica Elettronica Viva / Amy C. Beal -- The problem of the political in Steve Reich's Come out / Sumanth Gopinath ; The politics of Presque rien / Eric Drott -- Politicising performance. ONCE and the sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; "Scream against the sky" : Japanese avant-garde music in the sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett -- The challenge of institutionalization. After the October revolution : the jazz avant-garde in New York, 1964-65 / Bernard Gendron ; American cultural diplomacy and the mediation of avant-garde music / Danielle Fosler-Lussier ; From Scriabin to Pink Floyd : the ANS synthesizer and the politics of Soviet music between thaw and stagnation / Peter J. Schmelz.
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