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Avant rock : experimental music from the Beatles to Björk
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- Creator
- Bill Martin ; with a foreword by Robert Fripp
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : Open Court, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 269 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812695007, 0812695003
- OCLC
- ocm48620278
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
- Foreword / Robert Fripp -- Pt. 1. Practices, modalities. Synthesis and new vocabularies. When John met Yoko: the Beatles come apart. Deconstruction of the European classical tradition: John Cage and Glenn Gould. Blues into fragments: John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor. Electric Miles -- Pt. 2. Forests and trees. Noisy New York: the Velvet Underground. Psychedelic blues: Jimi Hendrix. The passage through progressive. Intimations of postmodern rock: Steely Dan. The passage through punk. Punk meets the Godmother: Patti Smith. Funk beyond the Godfather: George Clinton and P-Funk. Progressive times punk equals new wave. Before and after Eno. The transition to post-rock. Symphonies of hellacious electric guitars: Glenn Branca. Sonic truth. The Laswell/Zorn nexus. Avant-retro: Stereolab. Mom, can I take turntable lessons? or, Nobody here but me and my sampler. King Crimson exists when there is King Crimson music to be played. Land of the rising noise. Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, and beyond -- Pt. 3. Rock out. 1. Manifesto: Avant rock, the very idea. 2. Rock music in postmodern times