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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM And American Experimental Music
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM And American Experimental MusicA Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM And American Experimental MusicA Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM And American Experimental Music

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM And American Experimental Music

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Copyright HolderGeorge E. Lewis
PublisherThe University of Chicago Press
Book Design byRyan Li
Cover/Jacket Design byRyan Li
Cover photoJames Hollis
Photo CreditMiya Masaoka
About/SubjectJazz, Free Jazz, AACM
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationChicago and London
Copyright2008
Pages / Fontxlviii, 676 pages
ISBN 13978-0-226-47695-7
ISBN 100-226-47695-2
Barcode9780226476957
ChaptersPreface: the AACM and American experimentalism ix Acknowledgements xv Introduction: an AACM book: origins, antecedents, objectives, methods xxiii Chapter summaries xxxv 1 Foundations and prehistory 1 2 New music, New York 29 3 The development of the experimental band 55 4 Founding the collective 85 5 First fruits 115 6 The AACM takes off 163 7 Americans in Paris 215 8 The AACM's next wave 259 9 The AACM in New York 325 10 The new regime in Chicago 389 11 Into the third decade 439 12 Transition and reflections 481 Afterword 497 Appendix A: list of interviews conducted by the author 515 Appendix B: selected AACM recordings 519 Notes 525 Bibliography 601 Index 637
NotesPrinted in the U.S.A.
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