The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the College of Sociology: Avant-Garde Collectives in Contact

<p>Collections are mysterious things. A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related elements often coalesce into forms called texts, which are read for their formal coherence as individual entities. Walter Benjamin, while at times interested in the formal attributes of a specific text, alerts us to the possibility of a greater significance through the act of book collecting. Placing texts in new and different proximities to other texts, what Benjamin refers to as "unpacking," can highlight "lines of flight" (Deleuze/Guattari, p. 12) that can lead one to knowledge only hinted at in individual texts.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

History, MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Arts and Humanities

Year dc:date.available

1996

Author dc:creator

• Mittleman, David J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Robert Dawidoff

• Avant-Garde
• Jazz
• Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)
• College of Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/155

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1175