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    Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook

    New Directions in Music by David Cope

    Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde by Georgina Born

    Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Moira Roth

    Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers by William Duckworth

    Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde (Studies in Jazz Series) by Lloyd Peterson

    Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde by Joscelyn Godwin

    The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.) by Steven Johnson

    Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett

    Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde

    A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Ric Kostelanetz

    New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy Beal

    Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde by Lewis MacAdams

    Modern Music: The Avant Garde Since 1945 by Paul Griffiths

    Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing "Out There" by David G. Such

    Silencing The Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition by Christopher Shultis

    Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde by Bernard Gendron

    Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory by Susan Broadhurst

    What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies) by Leigh Landy

    The Unknown Paul McCartney: McCartney and the Avant Garde by Ian Peel

    Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929: (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Larry Sitsky

    The New Music: The Avant-garde since 1945 by Reginald Smith Brindle

    Experimental Music Notebooks (Performing Arts Studies) by Leigh Landy

    Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert (Musik in Dresden)

    György Ligetis Aventures & Nouvelles aventures: Studien zur Sprachkomposition und Ästhetik der Avantgarde (European university studies. Series XXXVI, Musicology) by Konstantinos Kakavelakis

    Composers of tomorrow's music;: A non-technical introduction to the musical avant-garde movement by David Ewen

    A concise history of avant-garde music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths

    Neue Musik und Interpretation: Fünf Kongressbeiträge und drei Seminarberichte (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt)

    Fusion: Tonal and avant garde music combined in melodic guitar solos (Guitar series) by Joe Diorio

    Tradition and Avant-Garde by Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric

    Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde by Daniel Herwitz

    Revolution in der Musik: Avantgarde von 1200 bis 2000

    From Classicism to Modernism: Western Musical Culture and the Metaphysics of Order by Brian K. Etter

    The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music by Bradley Smith

    The Art of Noises (Monographs in Musicology) by Luigi Russolo

    Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts : the Avant-Garde, No. 68) by Tricia Henry

    The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 19221936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Jennifer Doctor

    The musical avant-garde of the Renaissance,: Or, the peril and profit of foresight by Edward E Lowinsky

    The Avant-Garde Flute: A Handbook for Composers and Flutists (The New Instrumentation, V. 2) by Thomas Howell

    Source: Music of the Avant Garde by Michael D. Williams

    Avant-Garde Flute : A Handbook For Composers And Flutists.  -  Howell, Thomas

    The philosophy of the avant garde by Gary Novak

    Annual Review of Jazz Studies 3: Features Slam Stewart, Jelly Roll Morton, Bebop Composition, Jazz Avant-Garde (Annual Review of Jazz Studies)

    A comparative analysis of four avant-garde compositions from the aspect of timbre by Henry Criz

    Das Orgelschaffen Wolfgang Stockmeiers und die avantgardistische Orgelmusik (Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte) by Manfred Albus

    Fenomenologia della musica sperimentale (Collana di fenomenologia ed ermeneutica musicale) by Angelo Orcalli

    From Wikipedia:   Avant-Garde and Kitsch written by the New York art critic Clement Greenberg and published in the journal Partisan Review in 1939.

    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

    Buchloh, Benjamin (2001). Neoavantgarde and Culture Industry. MIT Press

    Bürger, Peter (1974). Theorie der Avantgarde. Suhrkamp Verlag

    Poggioli, Renato (1968). The Theory of the Avant-Garde. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-88216-4

    Calinescu, Matei (1987). The Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Duke University Press.

    Amazon.com: Electronic Music Pioneers: Books: Ben Kettlewell

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    The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945
     by Reginald Smith Brindle 
    A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez
    by Paul Griffiths 
    Source: Music of the Avant Garde
    by Michael D. Williams 
    Modern Music: The Avant Garde Since 1945
    by Paul Griffiths 
    Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
    by Bernard Gendron 
    Birth Of The Cool : Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
    by Lewis MacAdams 
    Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
    by Georgina Born 
    Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929: (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance)
    by Larry Sitsky 
    New Directions in Music
    by David Cope 
    What's the Matter With Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies, Vol. 4)  |  by Leigh Landy 
    Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing 'Out There
    by David G. Such 
    Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde  |  by Joscelyn Godwin 
    The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936 : Shaping a Nation's Tastes
    by Jennifer Doctor 
    Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory
    by Susan Broadhurst 
    Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition
    by Christopher Shultis 
    Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork
    by Bill Martin 
    Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers
     by William Duckworth 
    Electronic and Experimental Music
    by Thom Holmes 
    Electronic Music Pioneers
    by Ben Kettlewell 
    Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound
    by Eric Tamm 
    Writings on Music, 1965-2000
    by Steve Reich 
    Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde
    by David G. Goodman 
    Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music
    by Pascal Bussy 
    The Fluxus Reader
    by Ken Friedman 
    Tropical Truth : A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
    by Caetano Veloso 
    Aesthetics of Total Serialism: Contemporary Research from Music to Architecture (The It Revolution in Architecture)
    by Markus Bandur 
    Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture)
    by Judy Lochhead 
    On Sonic Art (Contemporary Music Studies
    by Trevor Wishart 
    Synthesizer Basics
    by Brent Hurtig 
    Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture)
    by Marcel Duchamp 
    The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
    by Steven Johnson 
    Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno ; Selected, With Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Richard Leppert ; New Translations by Susan H. Gillespie
    by Theodor W. Adorno 
    Masterworks of 20th-Century Music: The Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra
    by Douglas Lee 
    Schoenberg and the New Music : Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
    by Carl Dahlhaus
    Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
    by Arnold Whittall 


     

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