Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. Themes and Debates
2. Prehistory: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Music
3· Background: IRCAM's Conditions of Existence
4· The Institution of IRCAM: Culture and Status
5. Power, Institutional Conflict, Politics
6. Music: Uncertainty, the Canon, and Dissident Musics
7. Science, Technology, the Music Research Vanguard
8. A Composer's Visit: Mediations and Practices
9· Aporias: Technological and Social Problems around Production
IO. Subjectivities: Difference and Fragmentation
II. Conclusions: IRCAM, Cultural Power, and the Reproduction of Aesthetic Modernism

Appendix: IRCAM Workers and Visitors as Introduced in the Text, by Acronym
Glossary of terms and acronyms in the text
Notes
General Bibliography
Bibliography of Music-Related References
Index