Avant-Garde on Record

Musical Responses to Stereos

Jonathan Goldman (Université de Montréal)

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English

Cambridge University Press
09 November 2023

20th century & contemporary classical music

Series: Music since 1900

An innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism. It describes how a broad range of figures (including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Toshirō Mayuzumi, Claire Schapira, Anthony Braxton and Gunther Schuller) engaged with avant-garde aesthetics while responding to a rapidly changing, technologically fuelled, spatialized audio culture. Jonathan Goldman focuses on how contemporary listeners understood these composers' works in the golden age of LPs and explores how this reception was mediated through consumer-oriented sound technology that formed a prism through which listeners processed the 'music of their time'. His account reveals unexpected aspects of twentieth-century audio culture: from sonic ping-pong to son et lumière shows, from Venetian choral music by Stravinsky to the soundscape of Niagara Falls, from a Buddhist Cantata to an LP box set cast as a parlour game.

By: Jonathan Goldman (Université de Montréal)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 784g
ISBN: 9781009363396
ISBN 10: 1009363395
Series: Music since 1900
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Ping-pong and its discontents; 3. Doubles, rhymes and groups in stereo; 4. Transnational multiorchestralism; 5. The monumental stereo of son et lumière; 6. Phonographic spaces: circling San Marco, navigating Niagara; 7. Open works locked into grooves.

Jonathan Goldman is Professor of Musicology at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal. His research focuses on modernist/avant-garde music in a regional perspective. His publications include an Opus Prize-winning monograph, The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez (Cambridge, 2011), and four edited volumes.

Reviews for Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos

'Carefully researched, intelligently handled, and enjoyable-to-read … an invaluable contribution to research on postwar modernism'. Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin