A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

by George E. Lewis

Book Overview

Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226476960
• ISBN13: 9780226476964
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"