{"product_id":"rationalizing-culture-ircam-boulez-the-institutionalization-of-the-musical-avantgarde-paper-9780520202160","title":"Rationalizing Culture  Ircam Boulez  the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. Themes and Debates\u003cbr\u003e 2. Prehistory: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Music\u003cbr\u003e 3· Background: IRCAM's Conditions of Existence\u003cbr\u003e 4· The Institution of IRCAM: Culture and Status\u003cbr\u003e 5. Power, Institutional Conflict, Politics\u003cbr\u003e 6. Music: Uncertainty, the Canon, and Dissident Musics\u003cbr\u003e 7. Science, Technology, the Music Research Vanguard\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Composer's Visit: Mediations and Practices\u003cbr\u003e 9· Aporias: Technological and Social Problems around Production\u003cbr\u003e IO. Subjectivities: Difference and Fragmentation\u003cbr\u003e II. Conclusions: IRCAM, Cultural Power, and the Reproduction of Aesthetic Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: IRCAM Workers and Visitors as Introduced in the Text, by Acronym\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of terms and acronyms in the text\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e General Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Music-Related References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402801455447,"sku":"9780520202160","price":28.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520202160.jpg?v=1730481551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rationalizing-culture-ircam-boulez-the-institutionalization-of-the-musical-avantgarde-paper-9780520202160","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}