Composing Dissent
Avant-garde Music in 1960s Amsterdam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20013403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Adlington (0000-0002-9727-6315, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 366 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Composing Dissent Avantgarde Music In 1960s Amsterdam (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199981014.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4212960437 |
| Open Library | OL26090617M |
| ISBN | 9780199981014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians (including Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Misha Mengelberg) who were to gain international standing and influence as composers, performers, and teachers, and who had a defining impact upon Dutch musical life. Fundamental to their activities in the sixties was a pronounced commitment to social and political engagement. The lively culture of activism and dissent on the streets of Amsterdam prompted an array of vigorous responses from these musicians, including collaborations with countercultural and protest groups, campaigns, and direct action against established musical institutions, new grassroots performing associations, political concerts, polemicizing within musical works, and the advocacy of new, more "democratic" relationships with both performers and audiences. These activities laid the basis for the unique new music scene that emerged in the 1970s and which has been influential upon performers and composers worldwide. This book is the first sustained scholarly examination of this subject. It presents the Dutch experience as an exemplary case study in the complex and conflictual encounter of avant002Dgarde music with the decade's currents of social change. The narrative is structured around a number of the decade's defining topoi: modernization and "the new": anarchy, participation, politics, self-management, and popular music. Dutch avant-garde musicians engaged actively with each of these themes, but in so doing they found themselves faced with distinct and sometimes intractable challenges caused by the chafing of their political and aesthetic commitments
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Democracy · Dissent · Grassroots · Literature · Media studies · Modernization theory · Musical · Narrative · Political dissent · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Punk · Sociology · Visual arts · American Political and Social Dynamics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · 20th century · Avant-garde (music) · History · History and criticism · Music · Music, european · Music, history and criticism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |