Open Access"Au–delà d’une musique informelle": Nostalgia, obsolescence and the avant-garde
Author(s) -
Lorens Krejmer
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz0606043k
Subject(s) - obsolescence , avant garde , the imaginary , art , relation (database) , art history , aesthetics , humanities , computer science , psychoanalysis , psychology , geology , paleontology , database
This essay draws on the concepts of profane illumination and the inform to develop a model of the avant-garde in relation to obsolescence and nostalgia. The model is illustrated musically by accounts of two American works, the finale of Charles Ives’s Second Orchestral Set (1915) and John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios (1951)