Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits by Benjamin Piekut, ISBN-13: 978-0520268517

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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits by Benjamin Piekut, ISBN-13: 978-0520268517

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• Publisher: ‎ University of California Press; First edition (April 4, 2011)
• Language: ‎ English
• 296 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0520268512
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0520268517

In Experimental Otherwise, 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 Atlas Eclipticalis; 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.

Benjamin Piekut is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Cornell University.

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