Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture

This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the suppressed, and the unconformity of artistic and political undercurrents. Avant-garde and experimental art are international in scope, and their trajectory, as we see it, has been to expand themselves towards a new enlightenment, a critical project, and a rhizomatic entity, albeit with tacit harmony and cohesion. From Bucharest to Paris, London to New York, Paris to Brazil, Cuba, or Chile, to name a few, the same urge for the unknown and anti-art poetics emerged almost simultaneously in every field. We ask how these separate geographical territories (and practices) speak to each other and how this might reshape scholars' historical understanding of European and American modernity.
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Draws attention to previously underexplored experimental currents, artists, & movements in art, music, cinema, & poetry Reshapes understandings of European and American modernity Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on music, cinema, poetry, cybernetics, literature, and other arts This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Anabela Duarte has a PhD and a Post-Doc in American Literature and Culture at the University of Lisbon, and is organizer of the international conference the Invisible Republic: Music, Avant-Garde, and Counterculture. She is editor of the volume Do You Bowles? The Next Generation (Brill 2014).

Inhalt

Part 1: Avant-Gardes Revisited.- Chapter 1:On Listening to the Avant-Gardes: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Listen to the Colour of your Dreams: Lettrism, Isou and the Hypergraphic Novel.- Chapter 3: Adorno, Dada and Music.- Chapter 4: Postmodernism, Avant-Garde and Neo-Dadaism: The Legacy of Boguslaw Schaeffer.- Chapter 5: Alberto's Greco Vivo-Dito, Lettrism and the Prophecies of the Proper Name.- Chapter 6: Gothic as the First Avant-Garde Art.- Part 2: Transatlantic Avant-Gardes and Countercultures.- Chapter 7: Eugene Jolas and the Revolution of Language.- Chapter 8: Dark Night of the Universal: transition (1927-28) as Region of the Modern.- Chapter 9: Dada Countercultural Practices at the University of Iowa.- Chapter 10: Sunbird Records: From Subculture to Post-subculture.- Part 3: New Poetic Languages, Technology and Cinema.- Chapter 11: Variations on 4: The Verbivocovisual Sophistication of Dieter Roth's Non-Semantic Poetry.- Chapter 12: Aurality and Cyborg Poetry.- Chapter 13: On Anti-Viral Music.- Chapter 14: Ciao Manhattan: The Rise and Fall of the Underground.- Chapter 15: Hidden Influences in Music Technology: An Approach to Coding Practice.- Part 4: Politics and Aesthetics of Invisibility.- Chapter 16: Invisible Environments: CAyC and Countercultural Cybernetics.- Chapter 17: Diário da República: Heavy-metal as a Territory of Ideological Emancipation .- Chapter 18: Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy.- Part 5: Music, Sound and Literature.- Chapter 19: Concrete Voices and Resonant Bodies.- Chapter 20: Music, Literature and Cinema: When the Score Guides the Narrative.- Chapter 21: The Politics of a Voice: Demetrio Stratos .- Chapter 22: Sound as Model: Lucier versus Murail.- Chapter 23: Gravitas: An Audiovisual Cadavre Exquis for Times of Lexical Reduction.