The Musician as Philosopher - Michael Gallope

The Musician as Philosopher

New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83176-3 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
 

Michael Gallope is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable, also published by the University of Chicago Press.  

Introduction

Part I: Maps
Chapter 1 Affect—Praxis Chapter 2 Veils—Atmospheres Global Inequities
Intentionality and Grammar
Plays of Recognition
Atmospheres
Part II: Studios
Chapter 3 David Tudor, Esoteric Spectacle . . . c. 1958 Tudor’s Pianism of the 1950s
Cage’s Noumena of the 1950s
Tudor—Cage—Graph J
Ferocious Ineffability Chapter 4 Ornette Coleman, Utopian Intentionalities . . . c. 1966 Bebop Historicity
Deskilling Intentionalities
Vernacular Utopias
Harmolodic Ineffability Chapter 5 The Velvet Underground, Eleven Rooms . . . c. 1967 Drone Alchemy
Afro-magnetism
Atmospheric Rooms
Attitudinal Virtuosity
Vital Tape Chapter 6 Alice Coltrane, Divine Injunctions . . . c. 1971 Afrocentric Spiritualities
Ornamental Apparitions
Coltrane’s Philosophy
Divine Injunctions
Afro-futurity Chapter 7 Patti Smith—Richard Hell, Forces . . . c. 1974 Punk Primitivism
Poetry, Alchemy, Force
Paradoxes of the Erotic
The Aura of Unknowing
Conclusion A Materialist Music History
Acknowledgments
Archival Collections
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
ISBN-10 0-226-83176-0 / 0226831760
ISBN-13 978-0-226-83176-3 / 9780226831763
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