Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties
Editat de Robert Adlingtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195336658
ISBN-10: 0195336658
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 9 halftones, 17 line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195336658
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 9 halftones, 17 line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
This book encapsulates how and why popular music engages with politics and it is an illuminating read ... [an] original, enjoyable and very readable book.
a wide-ranging survey, and a valuable one...Deftly editied by Robert Adlington...throws a revealing light on a movement with too many manifestos in 'a decade that saw some of its most singular and provocative manifestations'.
Recounting little-known tales...confirms Sound Commitments value, in tracing avant-garde sounds' movement from the academy to the streets. More volumes of this quality about those times would be welcome.
In popular discourse, that cantankerous and forward-looking decade the 1960s has been far too much smoothed over, redrawn as a climax of fatuous idealism that ultimately produced only new wrinkles in fashion. Adlington's bracingly revealing volume of internationally-chosen case studies in avant-garde music restores that brave era to us as we lived it, with quotations from protagonists on all sides that remind us how much was at stake - and how much we need a resurgence of that idealism today.
Sound Commitments illuminates a decade that challenged prejudice, defeatism, dogma, and victorianism. Adlington's contributors don't smooth over the fault lines, but cover an ambitious variety of nations, styles, media, and agendas. We are left with a sense of failed idealism, but early 21st-century readers are left to ask, ruefully: isn't that better than no idealism whatsoever?
Makes a convincing case for the continued vigor of the musical avant-garde in the post-World War II period. The essays are impressive both for their individual depth and for their collective geographical and conceptual range.
a wide-ranging survey, and a valuable one...Deftly editied by Robert Adlington...throws a revealing light on a movement with too many manifestos in 'a decade that saw some of its most singular and provocative manifestations'.
Recounting little-known tales...confirms Sound Commitments value, in tracing avant-garde sounds' movement from the academy to the streets. More volumes of this quality about those times would be welcome.
In popular discourse, that cantankerous and forward-looking decade the 1960s has been far too much smoothed over, redrawn as a climax of fatuous idealism that ultimately produced only new wrinkles in fashion. Adlington's bracingly revealing volume of internationally-chosen case studies in avant-garde music restores that brave era to us as we lived it, with quotations from protagonists on all sides that remind us how much was at stake - and how much we need a resurgence of that idealism today.
Sound Commitments illuminates a decade that challenged prejudice, defeatism, dogma, and victorianism. Adlington's contributors don't smooth over the fault lines, but cover an ambitious variety of nations, styles, media, and agendas. We are left with a sense of failed idealism, but early 21st-century readers are left to ask, ruefully: isn't that better than no idealism whatsoever?
Makes a convincing case for the continued vigor of the musical avant-garde in the post-World War II period. The essays are impressive both for their individual depth and for their collective geographical and conceptual range.
Notă biografică
Robert Adlington is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on contemporary classical music, including monographs on Harrison Birtwistle (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Louis Andriessen (Ashgate, 2004). His current research explores music and politics in Amsterdam between 1966 and 1973, and has resulted in book chapters and articles in Journal of Musicology and Cambridge Opera Journal.