Experimentalism Otherwise(English, Paperback, Piekut Benjamin)

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Experimentalism Otherwise(English, Paperback, Piekut Benjamin) is written by Piekut Benjamin and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520268512 (ISBN 10) and 9780520268517 (ISBN 13).

In "Experimental Otherwise", Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by 'experimental' in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time - New York City, 1964 - Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt's demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and, the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.