An innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism. It describes how a broad range of figures (including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Claire Schapira, Anthony Braxton and Gunther Schuller) engaged with avant-garde aesthetics while responding to a rapidly changing, technologically fuelled, spatialized audio culture. Jonathan Goldman focuses on how contemporary listeners understood these composers' works in the golden age of LPs and explores how this reception was mediated through consumer-oriented sound technology that formed a prism through which listeners processed the 'music of their time'. His account reveals unexpected aspects of twentieth-century audio culture: from sonic ping-pong to son et lumiere shows, from Venetian choral music by Stravinsky to the soundscape of Niagara Falls, from a Buddhist Cantata to an LP box set cast as a parlour game.
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'Carefully researched, intelligently handled, and enjoyable-to-read ... an invaluable contribution to research on postwar modernism'. Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-1-009-36339-6 (9781009363396)
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Jonathan Goldman is Professor of Musicology at the Faculty of Music of the Universite de Montreal. His research focuses on modernist/avant-garde music in a regional perspective. His publications include an Opus Prize-winning monograph, The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez (Cambridge, 2011), and four edited volumes.
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Universite de Montreal
1. Introduction; 2. Ping-pong and its discontents; 3. Doubles, rhymes and groups in stereo; 4. Transnational multiorchestralism; 5. The monumental stereo of son et lumiere; 6. Phonographic spaces: circling San Marco, navigating Niagara; 7. Open works locked into grooves.
