Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties

This Text Examines The Encounter Of Avant-garde Music And 'the Sixties' Across A Range Of Genres, Aesthetic Positions And Geographical Locations. Avant-garde : Some Introductory Notes On The Politics Of A Label / Hubert F. Van Den Berg -- Ideologies. Demolish Serious Culture! : Henry Flynt And Workers World Party / Benjamin Piekut ; Forms Of Opposition At The Politiek-demonstratief Experimenteel Concert / Robert Adlington ; Aesthetic Theories And Revolutionary Practice : Nikolaus A. Huber And Clytus Gottwald In Dissent / Beate Kutschke -- Rethinking The Popular. Music Is A Universal Human Right : Musica Elettronica Viva / Amy C. Beal -- The Problem Of The Political In Steve Reich's Come Out / Sumanth Gopinath ; The Politics Of Presque Rien / Eric Drott -- Politicising Performance. Once And The Sixties / Ralf Dietrich ; Scream Against The Sky : Japanese Avant-garde Music In The Sixties / Yayoi Uno Everett -- The Challenge Of Institutionalization. After The October Revolution : The Jazz Avant-garde In New York, 1964-65 / Bernard Gendron ; American Cultural Diplomacy And The Mediation Of Avant-garde Music / Danielle Fosler-lussier ; From Scriabin To Pink Floyd : The Ans Synthesizer And The Politics Of Soviet Music Between Thaw And Stagnation / Peter J. Schmelz. Edited By Robert Adlington. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.