Avant Rock Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork

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Pub. Date: 2002-02-12
Publisher(s): Open Court
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Summary

Critiquing avant-garde rock bands from the 1960s to the present, Bill Martin examines how social upheaval gave rise to this new form of musical expression. He covers early experimentation by artists such as James Brown; initiation into the mainstream and the resulting adaptations by the Beatles and the Who; and continues into the present looking at how groups like Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, and others continue to innovate. An annotated discography is included.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Robert Fripp
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xiii
Part 1: Practices, modalities 1(60)
Synthesis and new vocabularies
3(9)
When John met Yoko: the Beatles come apart
12(14)
Deconstruction of the European classical tradition: John Cage and Glenn Gould
26(20)
Blues into fragments: John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor
46(9)
Electric Miles
55(6)
Part 2: Forests and trees 61(116)
Noisy New York: the Velvet Underground
63(2)
Psychedelic blues: Jimi Hendrix
65(4)
The Passage through progressive
69(15)
Intimations of postmodern rock: Steely Dan
84(4)
The passage through punk
88(6)
Punk meets the Godmother: Patti Smith
94(2)
Funk beyond the Godfather: George Clinton and P-Funk
96(2)
Progressive times punk equals new wave
98(4)
Before and after Eno
102(5)
The transition to post-rock
107(6)
Symphonies of hellacious electric guitars: Glenn Branca
113(5)
Sonic truth
118(6)
The Laswell/Zorn nexus
124(6)
Avant-retro: Stereolab
130(4)
Mom, can I take turntable lessons? or, Nobody here but me and my sampler
134(10)
King Crimson exists when there is King Crimson music to be played
144(9)
Land of the rising noise
153(11)
Bjork, Jim, O'Rourke, and beyond
164(13)
Part 3: Rock out 177(74)
Manifesto: Avant rock, the very idea
179(30)
Rock music in postmodern times
209(42)
Bibliography and further reading 251(8)
Index 259

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