02714nam 2200577 450 991046033950332120200520144314.00-8108-8313-9(CKB)3710000000244197(EBL)1791714(SSID)ssj0001347090(PQKBManifestationID)12527833(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001347090(PQKBWorkID)11348734(PQKB)10865988(MiAaPQ)EBC1791714(Au-PeEL)EBL1791714(CaPaEBR)ebr10938189(CaONFJC)MIL647165(OCoLC)891447940(EXLCZ)99371000000024419720140930h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAvant garde an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez /Robin MaconieLanham, Maryland ;Plymouth, England :The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,2012.©20121 online resource (341 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-15908-4 0-8108-8312-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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<span><span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Avant Garde: An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez</span><span>, 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.</span></span></span>Music20th centuryHistory and criticismAvant-garde (Music)United StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.MusicHistory and criticism.Avant-garde (Music)History780.9/04Maconie Robin864079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460339503321Avant garde2287708UNINA