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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"avant-garde music"”.
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The CLAEM and the construction of elite art worlds: philanthropy, Latinamericanism, and avant-garde music
… the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM, 1962-1971) accurately exemplifies how the embrace of avant-garde art music by several young Latin American composers is crucial to understand the creation and consolidation of particular social groups often identified as elites. …
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Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble
… beliefs and labour practices of the American new music ensemble eighth blackbird (lower-case intentional). Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the ensemble for the past six years, I show how the ensemble responds to specific cultural pressures endemic to the classical music scene, its …
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Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano, and string quartet no. 1 by Lazar Nikolov
… Konstantin Iliev, Nikolov founded the postwar avant garde in Bulgaria. He was among the first composers in Eastern Europe to abandon the influence of musical folklore and employ non-tonal techniques. Shortly before graduating from the State Academy of Music in 1946, Nikolov felt that the …
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Voices of New Music on National Public Radio: Radio Net, RadioVisions, and Maritime Rites
… focuses on the relationship between new American music and National Public Radio (NPR) during the 1970s and 1980s. NPR directly supported American experimental music, most often billed as "new music," through programming that both consolidated a tradition and extended it by commissioning new …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… too much of a classical connotation of standard musical practice or too scientific - for the purposes of this thesis, the discourse, following Levi Bryant (2014), engages with the term of the ‘machine’. The term ‘machine’ does not ignore the technical objects entangled together and suggests a …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… became arguably the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different composers and received the dedications of several more. …
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From soprano to barking dog : John Cage, the avant garde, and the counterculture, 1940-1975
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… dissertation examines the relationship between music performance and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the …