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Robert Adlington

Sound Commitments

Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties

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The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful contr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-971436-0
  • EAN: 9780199714360
  • Produktnummer: 13938652
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'290 KB
  • Abbildungen: 9 halftones, 17 lines

Über den Autor


Robert Adlington is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on contemporary classical music, including monographs on Harrison Birtwistle (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Louis Andriessen (Ashgate, 2004). His current research explores music and politics in Amsterdam between 1966 and 1973, and has resulted in book chapters and articles in Journal of Musicology and Cambridge Opera Journal.

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