Piekut Henry Cow

The World Is a Problem
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0551-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten

Benjamin Piekut tells the story of the English experimental rock band Henry Cow and how it linked its improvisational musical aesthetic with a collectivist, progressive politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piekut, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Feral Experimentalism 1
1. You Can't Play This Music at Cambridge 1968–73 29
2. Faust and the Virgins 1973 76
3. Contentment Is Hopeless, Unrest Is Progress 1974 119
4. Death to the Individual: Slapp Happy 1974–75 157
5. Europa 1975–76 199
6. The Roads Leading to Rome 1976–77 242
7. No Joy Anymore London 1977 293
8. Henry Cow Always Had to Be Henry Cow 1978 345
Afterword. The Vernacular Avant-Garde 387
Notes 409
Bibliography 455
Index 479

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Piekut is Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University, author of Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits, and editor of Tomorrow is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies.