The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978

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Product ID:	9780226831763
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Musician as Philosopher
Subtitle:	New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978
Authors:	Author: Michael Gallope
Page Count:	320
Subjects:	Music, Music, History: specific events and topics, Philosophy: aesthetics, History: specific events & topics, Philosophy: aesthetics, New York, c 1945 to c 1960, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1980
Description:	An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. It contends that these musicians—all of whom are understudied and none of whom are traditionally taken to be composers—not only challenged the rules by which music is written and practiced but also confounded and reconfigured gendered and racialized expectations for what critics took to be legitimate forms of musical sound. From a broad historical perspective, their arresting music electrified a widely recognized social tendency of the 1960s: a simultaneous affirmation and crisis of the modern self.
Imprint Name:	University of Chicago Press
Publisher Name:	The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-03-15

Weight	458 g
Dimensions	151 × 230 × 24 mm