Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos

by Jonathan Goldman

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, Toshirō Mayuzumi, Claire Schapira, Anthony Braxton and Gunther Schuller) engaged with avant-garde aesthetics while responding to a rapidly changing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009363395
• ISBN13: 9781009363396
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"