A Power Stronger Than Itself : The AACM and American Experimental Music - George E. Lewis

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A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

By: George E. Lewis

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Paperback | 27 October 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall's kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, "A Power Stronger Than Itself" uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art. "An important book. . . . Mr. Lewis narrates the AACM's] development with exacting context and incisive analysis. . . . Because the book includes biographical portraits of so many participating musicians, it's a swift, engrossing read."--"New York Times" "In bringing intellectual breadth and what Lester Bowie calls 'good old country ass-kicking' to bear on past and present indignities, Lewis has produced a fitting companion to the music he celebrates."--"Nation"

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"An important book.... Mr. Lewis narrates the AACM's development with exacting context and incisive analysis.... Because the book includes biographical portraits of so many participating musicians, it's a swift, engrossing read." - New York Times "In bringing intellectual breadth and what Lester Bowie calls 'good old country ass-kicking' to bear on past and present indignities, Lewis has produced a fitting companion to the music he celebrates." - Nation "With A Power Stronger Than Itself, Lewis exceeds expectations. For rather than merely recount the ascent of the AACM, he elegantly sets it against the backdrop of cultural, racial, and social changes that shook the twentieth century.... Lewis unreels this tale with dramatic flourish and scholarly authority, in effect telling the story of not only the AACM but also the city where it's centered, Chicago." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune"

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Preface: The AACM and American Experimentalism	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: An AACM Book: Origins, Antecedents, Objectives, Methods	p. xxiii
Chapter Summaries	p. xxxv
Foundations And Prehistory	p. 1
Coming North: From Great Migration to Great Depression	p. 1
Early Musical Experiences	p. 9
Improvisation and Autodidacticism in 1950s Chicago	p. 14
The End of an Era	p. 27
New Music, New York	p. 29
Culutures of Spontaneity: Integrationism and the Two Avant-Gardes	p. 29
Beyond a Bebop Boundary: The Challenge of New Music	p. 37
Critical Responses: Anger, Noise, Faillure	p. 43
A Far Cry from New York: Segregation and Chicago Music	p. 50
The Development of the Experimental Band	p. 55
Alternative Pedagogies of Experimental Music	p. 55
Eyes on the Sparrow: The First New Chicagoans	p. 61
Founding The Collective	p. 85
Urban Decline and the Turn to Communitarianism	p. 85
Born on the Kitchen Table: Conceiving the Association	p. 96
Naming Ceremony: Black Power and Black Institutions	p. 105
First Fruits	p. 115
The First Year: Concerts, Critics, and Issues	p. 115
New Arrivals and the University of Chicago	p. 125
Travel, Recording, and Intermedia	p. 141
Memories of the Sun: The AACM and Sun Ra	p. 156
The AACM Takes Off	p. 163
The Black Arts Movement in Chicago	p. 163
New Arrivals and New Ideas	p. 169
The AACM School	p. 175
Performing and Self-Determination	p. 179
Cultural Nationalism in Postmodern Transition	p. 196
Americans in Paris	p. 215
Conciving the World Audience	p. 215
Le Nouveau Paris Noir: Collectivity, Competition, and Excitement	p. 220
The Politics of Culture: Black Power and May 1968	p. 235
Die Emanzipation: The Rise of European Free Improvisation	p. 247
Homecoming	p. 254
The AACM'S Next Wave	p. 259
More from the Midwest: The Black Artists Group	p. 259
New Elbows on the Table: The AACM's Second Wave	p. 276
Ten Years After: The Association Comes of AGe	p. 313
The AACM in New York	p. 325
Migration and Invasion	p. 325
Europe and the Lofts	p. 338
Beyond a Binary: The AACM and the Crisis in Criticism	p. 353
Diversity and Its Discontents: New American Music after the Jazz Age	p. 370
The New Regime in Chicago	p. 389
Generational Shifts in the Collective	p. 389
The Two Cultures and a New Chapter	p. 396
Form and Funding: Philanthropy and Black Music in the 1970s Strains, Swirls, and Splits	p. 420
Strains, Swirls, and Splits	p. 420
Into the Third Decade	p. 439
The 1980s: Canons and Heterophony	p. 439
Great Black Music: The Local and the Global	p. 449
Leading the Third Wave: The New Women of the AACM	p. 459
Transition and Reflections	p. 481
New York in Transition	p. 481
Chicago in Reflection	p. 485
J'ai deux amours	p. 493
After	p. 497
The Way of the Arranger	p. 497
The Individual	p. 498
The Book	p. 499
Expansion and Sacrifice	p. 499
Boxing with Tradition	p. 504
Regrets	p. 505
Survival	p. 507
Contemplating the Post-jazz Continuum	p. 507
Atmospheres	p. 511
Futures	p. 513
List of Interviews Conducted by the Author	p. 515
Selected AACM Recordings	p. 519
Notes	p. 525
Bibliography	p. 601
Index	p. 637
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