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Is avant-garde a fixed thing?

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No historically and culturally constructed

More about culture and attitude

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Is modernism avant-garde?

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No

Avant garde is pushing towards the future while modernism is 1917/1920-1960

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Peter burger theory of avant garde

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Attack on autonomy

Need to break the division between art and society

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The claim avant garde is historical

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1) depends on a historically specific relationship
2) says this relationship is inadequate (not properly associated with social needs)
3) explicitly concerned with temporality and the future

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What was futurism

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Transmusical
1910
Saw traditional music as Seperated from noise and noise as a way of brining it back

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Example of a futurist

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Luigi Russolo

Made Intonarumon to make noise

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Rilsveglio di una cilta

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Awakening of the city
Russolo
Rumbling and siren sounds

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Why didn’t futurism last

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All enlisted into ww1 and died

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New concepts in the Weimae Republic

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Zeifoper
Gebrauchsmusik
Lehrstuck

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Zeifoper

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Opera on trendy subjects incorporating pop and jazz

Not that radical

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Gebrauchsmusik

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Music for use
Specific applications or pedagogical purposes
Teaching or movies

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Lehrstuck

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Learning pieces by Brecht

Unemotional

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Moritat von Mackie Messer

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Mack the Knife
From Brwvhts three penny opera
Lyrics about increasingly gruesome murders in detail
Contrasts the lilting melody and major key

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Nazi Germany

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State disconnected art from life
Celebrating Hitler
Use of Gebrauchsmusik as it applied to Voinsgemeinschaft

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Schulwerk

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Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman
Used in Hitler Youth
Upbeat and positive
Minimalist
Community music making
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Post ww2

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Effort to de nazi Germany failed

Soviet Germany = still music with a idealised false version or reality in celebration of the leader

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Ottmar Gerster

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From Weimar Germany through to Soviet he wrote the same kind of easily accessible and singable songs praising the leaders
Mundane and false

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Eisrnkombinat

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Ottmar Gerster

Wrote to celebrate the opening of a new iron works factory in East Germany

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Zhdanov Doctrine

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Social realism
Everyone had to compose in this way
Mundane and hiding reality or shitty life

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Theadore Adorno

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Marxist philosopher

Saw socialist realism as falsely positive and didn’t capture modern lode

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Theadore Adoeni belief about progressive art

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Must confront the catastrophe of modernity
Must he independent of the culture industry - autonomous
E.g talk about the holocaust

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Adorno philosophy of new music

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Schoenburg and progress

Stravinsky and reaction

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Schoenburg the presidents own

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Tonal and relatively pleasant

Shows Adorno was more interested in Schoenburgs social relations that music

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Adorno and the institutional avant-garde

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Festivals of New music E.g Darmstadt and Donaueschingen
Perspectives of what music should look like and do
12 tone row

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After Adorno

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1952/1953-1958

The Darmstadt School

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The Darmstadt School belief about Adorno

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Adorno was right about historical progress but picked the wrong composer
Schoenburg was fact regressive

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The Darmstadt School and Anton Webern

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Showed an extention of serial organisations to multiple musical parameters, beyond just pitch:
Rhythm, dynamics and intensity

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The Darmstadt School and electrical music

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Technical dimension

Idea that music represents the future

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Nummer 4 met dose tinen

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1952
Kovel Goeyvaerts
Toned electronic music
Totally organised
Starts and ends together but spreads out in the middle
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Avant garde conclusion

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Claim about the future, artists and society
Social relationships
Viscious cycle

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Gesong Der Junglinge

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Stockhausen
1955-56
Song of the youth
Children’s voices

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Codec error

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Schubert
Music light and choreography
Double bass, 2 percussionists and light
Digital age

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Antonin Artaud no more masterpieces

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From 'theatre and its double'
Theatre of cruelty
Shock and confront the audience
Gesture and movement more powerful than text
Teach the audience something

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