Rationalizing culture : IRCAM, Boulez, and the institutionalization of the musical avant-garde /

As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Born, Georgina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, ©1995.
Temas:
Boulez, Pierre, > 1925- > Influence.
Boulez, Pierre, > 1925-2016.
Boulez, Pierre.
IRCAM (Research institute : France)
IRCAM (Institut de recherche : France)
Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique, Musique
Avant-garde (Music) > Social aspects.
Computer music > Social aspects.
Research institutes > Anthropological aspects > France.
Avant-garde (Music)
Musicology > Social aspects.
Musique expérimentale > Aspect social.
Centres de recherche > France > Aspect anthropologique.
Musique expérimentale.
Musicologie > Aspect social.
Centres de recherche > Aspect anthropologique > France.
Research institutes > Anthropological aspects.
Avant-garde.
Computermuziek.
Muzieksociologie.
MUSIC / General
France.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Themes and Debates
  • 2. Prehistory: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Music
  • 3. Background: IRCAM's Conditions of Existence
  • 4. The Institution of IRCAM: Culture and Status
  • 5. Power, Institutional Conflict, Politics
  • 6. Music: Uncertainty, the Canon, and Dissident Musics
  • 7. Science, Technology, the Music Research Vanguard
  • 8. A Composer's Visit: Mediations and Practices
  • 9. Aporias: Technological and Social Problems around Production
  • 10. Subjectivities: Difference and Fragmentation
  • 11. Conclusions: IRCAM, Cultural Power, and the Reproduction of Aesthetic Modernism
  • Appendix: IRCAM Workers and Visitors as Introduced in the Text, by Acronym.

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