In Experimental Otherwise; Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and timemdash;New York City; 1964mdash;Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonicrsquo;s disastrous performance of John Cagersquo;s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flyntrsquo;s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moormanrsquo;s Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities; Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde; not as a style or genre; but as a network defined by disagreements; struggles; and exclusions.
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