Record Nr.

UNINA9910460339503321

Autore

Maconie Robin

Titolo

Avant garde : an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez / / Robin Maconie

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2012
©2012

ISBN

0-8108-8313-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

780.9/04

Soggetti

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Music) - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Avant Garde; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The search for King Kong; 2 Sacks''s agnosia; 3 How not to listen; 4 Recording angel; 5 The secret life of savages; 6 About Wittgenstein; 7 La guerre du destin; 8 Boulez in the underworld; 9 The French connection; 10 The poetics of Milton; 11 An upside down unicycle; 12 Alfred North Whitehead; 13 Speaking in tongues; 14 Two studies; 15 Recent intelligence; 16 Art and Realpolitik; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Avant Garde: An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen specialist Robin Maconie reconsiders the role of music and music technology through careful examination of key modern concepts with respect to time, existence, identity, and relationship as formulated by such thinkers as Einstein, Russell, Whitehead, and Gertrude Stein, along with Freud, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and Marcel Duchamp.