Situatie : without orientation in new Babylon -- Vernieuwing : the Maderna campaign, cultural policy, and the new -- Anarchie : chaos, freedom, and instant composing -- Participatie : experimenting (on) audiences -- Politiek : on the impossibility of saying nothing in 1968 -- Zelfbeheer : composers, performers, and the renewal of musical practice -- Volksmuziek : Louis Andriessen's Volkslied and the Internationale
Summary
The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians with a pronounced commitment to social and political engagement. This book presents the Dutch experience as an exemplary case study in the complex and conflictual encounter of the musical avant-garde with the decade's currents of social change
