Adlington, Robert - Sound Commitments

CONTENTS

List of contributors
Introduction: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties
1 Avant-garde-Some Introductory Notes on the Politics of a Label
2 Demolish Serious Culture!: Henry Flynt and Workers World Party
3 Forms of Opposition at the 'Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel' Concert
4 Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent
5 Music is a Universal Human Right: Musica Elettronica Viva
6 The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out
8 ONCE and the Sixties
9 Scream Against the Sky: Japanese Avant-garde Music in the Sixties
10 After the October Revolution: The Jazz Avant-garde in New York, 1964-65
11 American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music
12 From Scriabin to Pink Floyd: the ANS Synthesizer and the Politics of Soviet
Index