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Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
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Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Bernard Gendron


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I In October 1967 the young literary theorist Richard Poirier caused a stir in intellectual circles with a scholarly article reverentially analyzing the words and music of the Beatles.

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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular music was considered vulgar entertainment. But today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their lead practitioners are regularly accorded a status on a par with the cultural elite. When and how did popular music earn so much cultural capital? To find out, Bernard Gendron investigates five key historical moments when popular music and avant-garde art transgressed the rigid boundaries separating high and low culture to form friendly alliances. Covering cabarets, jazz, rock and roll, punk rock, and new wave, Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club locates the historical points where music and high art collided. It is a book that should be on the shelves of anyone interested in the intersections between high and low culture, art and music, or history and aesthetics.

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  • Title Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
  • Author Bernard Gendron
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date April 8, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226287355 / 0226287351
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.48 x 1.13 in (22.61 x 16.46 x 2.87 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular music - History and criticism, Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001042791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.640

About the author

Bernard Gendron is a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Technology and the Human Condition.
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