Source – Music of the Avant–Garde, 1966–1973 - Hardcover

Austin, Larry; Kahn, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520257480 ISBN 13: 9780520257481

Publisher: University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

This journal "Source: Music of the Avant-garde" was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, "Source" documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.

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Review:

"Many unexpected delights." Gramophone "Source was there to document all the crazy changes in ... art-music that we're always trying to one-up one another in our purported 'vast knowledge of' here in the TMT office. Score." Tiny Mix Tapes "Compelling and historically important... The new print and audio editions of Source are a valuable resource for composers, scholars, and performers... I highly recommend both!" -- Michael Boyd Computer Music Journal "Fascinating... A healthy collection of prose descriptions trying to account for what was going on at the time." -- Stephen Smoliar Examiner.com "Remarkable... The book is a delight to hold and view... Highly recommended." -- John Schuster-Craig, Grand Valley State University Fontes Artis Musicae

About the Author:

Larry Austin was the founding editor of Source and is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. Douglas Kahn is the author of Noise Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, and a Research Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0520257480
• ISBN 13: 9780520257481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440