Avant Garde: an American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez

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Avant Garde; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The search for King Kong; 2 Sacks''s agnosia; 3 How not to listen; 4 Recording angel; 5 The secret life of savages; 6 About Wittgenstein; 7 La guerre du destin; 8 Boulez in the underworld; 9 The French connection; 10 The poetics of Milton; 11 An upside down unicycle; 12 Alfred North Whitehead; 13 Speaking in tongues; 14 Two studies; 15 Recent intelligence; 16 Art and Realpolitik; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.;In Avant Garde: An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen specialist Robin Maconie reconsiders the role of music and music technology through careful examination of key modern concepts with respect to time, existence, identity, and relationship as formulated by such thinkers as Einstein, Russell, Whitehead, and Gertrude Stein, along with Freud, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and Marcel Duchamp.