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Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork
by
Bill Martin
Is avant-garde rock music a contradiction in terms? Avant-garde trends emerged through the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960's, and acquired a new focus in the later Beatles, drawing upon many sourcees outside of rock, from John Cage to Cecil Taylor. In this fresh and challenging look at avant rock, Bill Martin outlines the entire phenomenon, from Yoko Ono, King...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
February 12th 2002
by Open Court
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I saw the author give a lecture at Utah State University in the late 90s and this book suffers from the same pretension that marred his speaking. On the other hand, the guy knows avant garde rock music, and makes some nice conceptual connections between diverse genres and communities of musicians. Avant Rock reminds me of Joe Carducci's Rock and the Pop Narcotic: lots of short, fairly useless bits of name-dropping with little handfuls of really meaty theory scattered throughout. Would probably b...more
Martin's writing style is awful — the organization of this book is pretty much impossible to follow (if indeed there’s any rhyme or reason to it at all), and he has an annoying habit of name-dropping esoteric Western philosophers at literally every turn. While I am enough of an academic at heart to be interested in how avant-rock relates to Derrida, this is a little much. I almost get the feeling that Martin just included every single connection between music and philosophy that came to his mind...more
yeah. a really cool book. with lots of great album lists. gets very deep into modern philosophy and art theory---this is mind bending stuff--from stravinsky onward! a history of everything that even touches the title subject...
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