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Source: Music of the Avant Garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Published from 1967-1973, 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, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Anthony Braxton, Cornelius Cardew, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, Gordon Mumma, Max Neuhaus, Jerry Hunt and many others. Source documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theatre and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Source founding editor-composer Larry Austin and historian Douglas Kahn have revived this path-breaking publication to spotlight the period and allow it to inspire new generations of musicians and artists.
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