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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: Now that the audience is assembled |
| Summary |
"Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. Over the course of this phantasmagorical all-night concert, repeated interruptions take the form of in-depth discussions and musical demonstrations. Both a work of literature and a study of music, Now that the audience is assembled explores the categories of improvised music, solo performance, text scores, instrument building, aesthetic deskilling and reskilling, and the odd fate of the composer in experimental music."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Music -- Performance -- Poetry
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Improvisation (Music) -- Poetry
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Music in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Improvisation (Music)
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Music in literature.
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Music -- Performance.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017051026 |
| ISBN |
9780822371588 |
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0822371588 |
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