Musician as Philosopher

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

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Av Michael Gallope

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226831749

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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

"Michael Gallope’s The Musician As Philosopher is an inspired and dilative look at the maelstrom of creative work in music and sound emanating from thinkers and doers living and working in mid-twentieth century New York City. . . . Pivoting fluidly between sound and media analyses, aesthetics, political economy, musicology, and critical perspectives on praxis, reception, and consumption, Gallope presents new frameworks for understanding some of the thinking and feeling behind the recorded works now canonized as exemplars of a gritty and resourceful vernacular avant-garde. . . .Understanding these musicians as philosophers, Gallope offers readers a deep history of sounds, styles, and ideas that ushered in music’s future."