The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to
radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the
desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often
thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual
territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout
the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that
aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural
bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political
upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their
music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful
contribution to social change if their music remained the preserve
of a tiny, initiated clique? In answer, Otherwise Engaged, examines
the encounter of avant-garde music and "the Sixties" across a range
of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations. Through
music for the concert hall, tape and electronic music, jazz and
improvisation, participatory "events," performance art, and
experimental popular music, the essays in this volume explore
developments in the United States, France, West Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Japan and parts of the "Third
World," delving into the deep richness of avant-garde musicians'
response to the decade's defining cultural shifts.
Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant
figures of the period in each chapter, Otherwise Engaged will
appeal to researchers and advanced students in the fields of
post-war music, cultures of the 1960s, and the avant-garde, as well
as to an informed general readership.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2008 |
| Editors: |
Robert Adlington
(Senior Lecturer in Music)
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| Dimensions: |
232 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-533665-8 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-19-533665-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780195336658 |
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