{"product_id":"experimentalism-otherwise-the-new-york-avant-garde-and-its-limits-volume-11-paperback","title":"Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits Volume 11 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Piekut\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eExperimental Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eAtlas Eclipticalis\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Piekut takes scholarship on late twentieth century music to new heights with this inventive and compelling study of the networks of experimental music. Weaving a historical ethnography of performances, practices, sounds, and subjectivities together with insights from recent social and anthropological theory, uncovering new perspectives on key figures from John Cage and Henry Flynt to Carla Bley and Charlotte Moorman, he gives us 'actually existing experimentalism' free from idealization or dilution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Georgina Born, author of \u003ci\u003eRationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ben Piekut's methodologically astute 'history of actually existing experimentalism' provides a brilliantly focused, yet ultimately expansive interrogation of the musical networks that flourished in New York City around the year 1964. Engaging, insightful, and important, \u003ci\u003eExperimentalism Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to prove an indispensable reference not only for musicologists, but for anyone interested in the tangled cultural history of the period at large.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Branden W. Joseph, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Buttressed by interviews with surviving participants and close examination of scores, texts, images, and ephemera, Piekut erects a framework within which the sometimes poignant, sometimes absurd network of semi-failed interactions that defined the space of 'experimental music' can take shape in the mind of a delighted reader. \u003ci\u003eExperimentalism Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e deftly escapes the hagiographic mode: figures like John Cage, Henry Flynt, and Charlotte Moorman appear in its pages as scrappy improvisers of aesthetic contingency, not plaster saints of the avant-garde. This is late-twentieth-century music history as it ought to be written!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Fink, author of \u003ci\u003eRepeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Experimentalism is never only that, is the meta-argument of \u003ci\u003eExperimentalism Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e. With a focus on participants of four moments in four explicitly experimental music scenes in a single year and in a single city, Piekut 'follows the actors' not only to their appointments with the new as isolated from other events, but along historically grounded routes too ordinary to have received prior notice. In doing so, he achieves something of an anti-'experimentalism for experimentalism's sake' historiography of select New York experimental music events of the 1960s. That this gripping analysis of historical experimentalism is so rich with difference and contradiction, so illuminating of the challenges of producing the 'new' in the 'now' is precisely due to Piekut's diligence in opening a world of the ordinary where we didn't expect it. This book is a revelation of the relationship between ordinariness and newness that will change how cultural historians think about experimentalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Sherrie Tucker, author of \u003ci\u003eSwing Shift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Piekut\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424785195110,"sku":"9780520268517","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VkJ4ZEl6Vi9JK2ozVVM3Q3Q0YVJJUT09.webp?v=1775609437","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/experimentalism-otherwise-the-new-york-avant-garde-and-its-limits-volume-11-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}