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New music, new allies : American experimental music in West Germany from the zero hour to reunification /

Title:
New music, new allies : American experimental music in West Germany from the zero hour to reunification /
Author:
Beal, Amy C.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt
Contents:
West Germany and the American experimental tradition. The American occupation and agents of reeducation (1945-1950). Henry Cowell and the office of war information ; The zero hour and American music in postwar Berlin ; Reeducation and information control ; The radio broadcasting system ; Music officers and America houses ; Military support for new music in Darmstadt ; Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt in America, 1949 ; Edgard Varese in Darmstadt, 1950: a question of Kultur -- Debuts (1950-1954). New music on the radio: educational commitments ; Herbert Eimert's musical night program ; "Everything is going on in Germany" ; The growth of festival culture ; Darmstadt, Wolfgang Rebner, and American music ; John Cage and David Tudor in Donaueschingen ; Cologne: WDR and Karlheinz Stockhausen ; American orchestral music in Baden-Baden -- Ambassadors for the American avant-garde (1955-1958). Stefan Wolpe and David Tudor in Darmstadt, 1956 ; Tudor, the Pied Piper from New York ; Henry Cowell's 1956 tour ; Awaiting "Still the most desired pianist anywhere" ; Cage and Tudor in Darmstadt, 1958 ; Cologne galleries and Musik der Zeit ; Does modern music in the USA begin and end with Cage? -- Musics of change: action after Cage (1959-1961). After Darmstadt in 1958: Cagean repercussions ; Darmstadt, 1959 ; Steinecke's Beitrage, 1960 ; Mary Bauermeister's Cologne studio ; Fluxus in West Germany ; Darmstadt 1961: Tudor's night program ; Steinecke's death: the end of an era -- Changing of the guards (1962-1970). Propaganda and polarization ; Ernst Thomas's Darmstadt ; Bremen: Hans Otte and pro musica nova ; Munich: musica viva and Josef Anton Riedl ; The well-funded island of West Berlin ; Generational conflicts ; Free jazz in Donaueschingen and Berlin -- The pluralism paradigm (1970-1974). Music and ideology ; Darmstadt's crisis, 1970 ; 1972: a breakthrough ; "Europe needs Cage": pro musica nova, 1972 ; Berlin, Walter Bachauer, and the Munich Olympics ; Darmstadt between revolution and restoration ; Minimalism ; Metamusik, 1974 -- New allies and old heroes (1975-1990). State funding and market considerations after 1976 ; Bachauer's Berlin and after ; Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and Frankfurt's radio landscape ; Walter Zimmermann's Desert Plants ; The beginner studio and Cologne venues ; "Europe needs Nancarrow" ; Morton Feldman: "My biggest fans are Germans!" ; Falling walls -- Conclusion. From Darmstadt to Halberstadt.
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Library holdings:
MassArt Main
ML275.5 .B3 2006 – Available