Musician as Philosopher

New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978

AvMichael Gallope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. It contends that these musicians—all of whom are understudied and none of whom are traditionally taken to be composers—not only challenged the rules by which music is written and practiced but also confounded and reconfigured gendered and racialized expectations for what critics took to be legitimate forms of musical sound. From a broad historical perspective, their arresting music electrified a widely recognized social tendency of the 1960s: a simultaneous affirmation and crisis of the modern self.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226831749

Utforska kategorier

Musikhistoria inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Michael Gallope is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"“In his first book Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy and the Ineffable (2017), musician and academic Michael Gallope explored the ways in which music inspired modern European philosophers. With The Musician as Philosopher, he turns to the philosophical thinking of musicians themselves, with a focus on the ‘strange, intense, disorienting’ musical irruptions of New York’s postwar avant-grade. It’s refreshing to see [Ornette] Coleman’s philosophy taken seriously and Gallope pays equal respect to Alice Coltrane's engagement with Eastern philosophy. The Coltrane chapter is perhaps the richest in the book, bringing her musical and spiritual practices together… While tracing the commonalities between these artists, Gallope recognizes the complex dynamics of class, race, gender and sexuality… He describes his approach as an immanent critique and it would be fascinating to read his take on the vernacular avant-gardes of disc, hip-hop and no wave, all vital sites of hyperfracture and alchemy."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: MapsChapter 1 Affect—Praxis Chapter 2 Veils—Atmospheres Global InequitiesIntentionality and GrammarPlays of RecognitionAtmospheres Part II: StudiosChapter 3 David Tudor, Esoteric Spectacle . . . c. 1958 Tudor’s Pianism of the 1950sCage’s Noumena of the 1950sTudor—Cage—Graph JFerocious Ineffability Chapter 4 Ornette Coleman, Utopian Intentionalities . . . c. 1966 Bebop HistoricityDeskilling IntentionalitiesVernacular UtopiasHarmolodic Ineffability Chapter 5 The Velvet Underground, Eleven Rooms . . . c. 1967 Drone AlchemyAfro-magnetismAtmospheric RoomsAttitudinal VirtuosityVital Tape Chapter 6 Alice Coltrane, Divine Injunctions . . . c. 1971 Afrocentric SpiritualitiesOrnamental ApparitionsColtrane’s PhilosophyDivine InjunctionsAfro-futurity Chapter 7 Patti Smith—Richard Hell, Forces . . . c. 1974 Punk PrimitivismPoetry, Alchemy, ForceParadoxes of the EroticThe Aura of Unknowing Conclusion A Materialist Music History AcknowledgmentsArchival CollectionsNotesIndex