‘Au–delà d’une musique informelle’: Nostalgia, Obsolescence, and the Avant-garde
‘Au–delà d’une musique informelle’: Nostalgia, Obsolescence, and the Avant-garde
Author(s): Lawrence KramerSubject(s): Music, Aesthetics, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Avant-garde; Brian Ferneyhough; Walter Benjamin; Charles Ives; John Cage; informe; nostalgia; obsolescence;
Summary/Abstract: This essay draws on the concepts of profane illumination and the informe to develop a model of the avant-garde in relation to obsolescence and nostalgia. The model is illustrated musically by accounts of two American works, the finale of Charles Ives’s Second Orchestral Set (1915) and John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios (1951).
Journal: Muzikologija
- Issue Year: 1/2006
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 43-62
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English