Benjamin Piekut: 1 book
Experimentalism Otherwise
The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s...
