Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973

Larry Austin, Douglas Kahn, Nilendra Gurusinghe

Univ of California Press, Jul 6, 2011 - Music - 396 pages

The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, Source documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.

Contents

• Larry Austin on Source Music of the Avant Garde: 1
• Issue No1: 9
• Issue No 2: 49
• Issue No 3: 91
• Issue No 4: 141
• Issue No 5: 165
• Issue No 6: 203
• Issue No 7: 229
• Issue No 8: 261
• Issue No 9: 291
• Issue No 10: 305
• Issue No 11: 347
• Complete Contents of Source: 371
• Credits: 381

About the author

Larry Austin was the founding editor of Source and is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. Douglas Kahn is the author of Noise Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, and a Research Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973
• Editors: Larry Austin, Douglas Kahn, Nilendra Gurusinghe
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0520424603, 9780520424609
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: Art / American / General; Music / General; Music / Genres & Styles / Classical