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Author Goldman, Jonathan, 1972- author.

Title Avant-garde on record : musical responses to stereos / Jonathan Goldman
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages)
Series Music since 1900
Music since 1900.
Contents Introduction -- Ping-Pong and Its Discontents -- Doubles, Rhymes and Groups in Stereo -- Transnational Multiorchestralism -- The Monumental Stereo of Son Et Lumière -- Phonographic Spaces : Circling San Marco, Navigating Niagara -- Open Works Locked into Grooves -- Epilogue
Summary "Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with records and recording. Combining approaches from music history, cultural studies and sound studies, it shows how contemporary listeners experienced this music through consumer-oriented technology also embraced by popular music creators"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-310) and index
Subject Electronic music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Music and technology -- History -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 20th century
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1009363409
9781009363402