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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits by Benjamin Piekut, ISBN-13: 978-0520268517
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- Publisher: University of California Press; First edition (April 4, 2011)
- Language: English
- 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0520268512
- ISBN-13: 978-0520268517
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.
Benjamin Piekut is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Cornell University.
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