[spectre] Leonardo Music Journal : New Issue

[Annick Bureaud]

Volume 11 of the Leonardo Music Journal has just been released with it's
audio CD companion.

 It's theme : NOT NECESSARILY ENGLISH MUSIC: BRITAIN'S SECOND 'GOLDEN AGE"

> 
> LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL
> The LMJ series is devoted to the aesthetic and technical issues in
> contemporary music and sonic arts. Currently under the editorship of
> Nicolas Collins, each thematic issue features artists/writers from
> around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints,
> and includes an audio CD or CD-ROM. LMJ is available by subscription
> from the MIT Press. Visit http://mitpress.mit.edu.
> 
> VOLUME 11
> Not Necessarily "English Music":
> Britain's Second "Golden Age"
> After the first installment of Cool Britannia beguiled the 1960s with
> its peculiar conflation of Pop, Art, Fashion and Politics, musical
> experimentation flourished in the U.K. Styles of improvisation,
> minimalism, electronic music, performance art, political music and
> "amateur" music grew out of British art schools, universities and
> urban villages; styles neither as self-important as those of Europe
> nor as blithely technocratic as those of North America---a peculiarly
> "English Music" (and Scottish and Welsh). Some practitioners became
> well-known and influential artists outside of the U.K. (Cornelius
> Cardew, Michael Nyman, Derek Bailey), while others have remained far
> too unrecognized abroad.
> This volume of Leonardo Music Journal highlights observers and
> participants who have contributed their accounts of this latest
> "Golden Age" of British Music. It is accompanied by a double CD of 27
> pioneering U.K. works covering the period between 1960 and 1977.
> 
> LMJ 11 DOUBLE COMPACT DISC
> LMJ 11 includes the double audio CD: Not Necessarily "English Music,"
> curated by musician, composer, writer and sound curator David Toop.
> The two CDs feature pieces from pioneering U.K. composers and
> performers from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s: AMM; Max
> Eastley; Intermodulation; Frank Perry; Michael Parsons & Howard
> Skempton; Daphne Oram; abAna; Hugh Davies; Robert Worby; Lol Coxhill
> & Steve Miller; Spontaneous Music Orchestra; The People Band; Evan
> Parker & Paul Lytton; John Stevens; Steve Beresford; Cornelius Cardew
> & Jane Manning; Ron Geesin; Gentle Fire; Rain in the Face; Ranulph
> Glanville; The Campiello Band; Mike Cooper; A Touch of the Sun; The
> Scratch Orchestra; and Frank Perry, Mongezi Feza & Chris McGregor.
> 
> Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 11, including the double CD, is available
> from the MIT Press for $30. To order, send email to
> journals-orders@mit.edu.
> 
> For more information about LMJ11 and CD, including its table of
> contents, article abstracts, CD playlist, introduction to the issue
> and the CD, visit http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo/lmj/


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