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Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
Georgina Born
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Description for Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
Paperback. This is an ethnography of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Co-ordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. The book studies the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. Num Pages: 392 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, 14 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992. Born depicts a major artistic institution trying to maintain its status and legitimacy in an era increasingly ... Read more
Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992. Born depicts a major artistic institution trying to maintain its status and legitimacy in an era increasingly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520202160
SKU
V9780520202160
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About Georgina Born
Georgina Born is University Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture and Media at the University of Cambridge, and Official Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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