Description
Expanding the place of Jacques Ranciere's philosophy within musicology, Nickleson draws attention to disciplinary practices of guarding compositional authority against artists who set out to undermine it. The book reimagines the canonic artists and works of minimalism as "(early) minimalism," to show that art music histories refuse to take seriously challenges to conventional authorship as a means of defending the very category "art music." Ultimately, Nickleson asks where we end up if we imagine the early minimalist project-artists forming bands to perform their own music, rejecting the score in favor of recording, making extensive use of magnetic type as compositional and archival medium, hosting performances in lofts and art galleries rather than concert halls-not as a utopian moment within a 1960s counterculture doomed to fail, but as the beginning of a process with a long and influential afterlife.
About the Author
Patrick Nickleson is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College Dublin School of Music.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472133284
Author Patrick Nickleson
Format Hardback
Page Count 266
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 363g