The Arab avant-garde: music, politics, modernity
by Harbert, Benjamin J., Dickinson, Kay
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From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational tec…
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music.
"From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational te…
The author presents an in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music.
This work is a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. The book documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theatre and installations, and much more.
Source: music of the avant-garde, 1966-1973
"The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, …
The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, D…