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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Martin, Bill, 1956- Avant rock. Chicago : Open Court, 2002 (OCoLC)605890903 Online version: Martin, Bill, 1956- Avant rock. Chicago : Open Court, 2002 (OCoLC)630341005 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill Martin |
ISBN: | 0812695003 9780812695007 |
OCLC Number: | 48620278 |
Description: | xvi, 269 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Practices, modalities -- Synthesis and new vocabularies -- When John met Yoko: the Beatles come apart -- Deconstruction of the European classical tradition: John Cage and Glenn Gould -- Blues into fragments: John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor -- Electric Miles -- Forests and trees -- Noisy New York: the Velvet Underground -- Psychedelic blues: Jimi Hendrix -- The passage through progressive -- Intimations of postmodern rock: Steely Dan -- The passage through punk -- Punk meets the Godmother: Patti Smith -- Funk beyond the Godfather: George Clinton and P-Funk -- Progressive times punk equals new wave -- Before and after Eno -- The transition to post-rock -- Symphonies of hellacious electric guitars: Glenn Branca -- Sonic truth -- The Laswell/Zorn nexus -- Avant-retro: Stereolab -- Mom, can I take turntable lessons? or, Nobody here but me and my sampler -- King Crimson exists when there is King Crimson music to be played -- Land of the rising noise -- Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, and beyond -- Rock out -- Manifesto: Avant rock, the very idea -- Rock music in postmodern times. |
Series Title: | Feedback (Chicago, Ill.), v. 3. |
Responsibility: | Bill Martin ; with a foreword by Robert Fripp. |
Abstract:
This text explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the 1960s - the same time in which rock music was becoming a more universal musical language, strongly associated with youth culture. The book traces the evolution of the musical genre to the present day.
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