Sound commitments: avant-garde music and the sixties (harback)

List of contributors. Introduction: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties. 1. Avant-garde-Some Introductory Notes on the Politics of a Label. 2. "Demolish Serious Culture!": Henry Flynt and Workers World Party. 3. Forms of Opposition at the 'Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel' Concert. 4. Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent. 5. "Music is a Universal Human Right": Musica Elettronica Viva. 6. The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out. 8. ONCE and the Sixties. 9. "Scream Against the Sky": Japanese Avant-garde Music in the Sixties. 10. After the October Revolution: The Jazz Avant-garde in New York, 1964-65. 11. American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music. 12. From Scriabin to Pink Floyd: the ANS Synthesizer and the Politics of Soviet. Index.