Benjamin Piekut

Henry Cow

The World Is a Problem

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Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Piekut tells the story of the English experimental rock band Henry Cow and how it linked its improvisational musical aesthetic with a collectivist, progressive politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004660
• ISBN-10: 1478004665
• Artikelnr.: 54306677

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Piekut is Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University, author of Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits, and editor of Tomorrow is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Feral Experimentalism  1
1. You Can't Play This Music at Cambridge 1968–73  29
2. Faust and the Virgins 1973  76
3. Contentment Is Hopeless, Unrest Is Progress 1974  119
4. Death to the Individual: Slapp Happy 1974–75  157
5. Europa 1975–76  199
6. The Roads Leading to Rome 1976–77  242
7. No Joy Anymore London 1977  293
8. Henry Cow Always Had to Be Henry Cow 1978  345
Afterword. The Vernacular Avant-Garde  387
Notes  409
Bibliography  455
Index  479