The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde Paperback - 2008
by David Bernstein (Editor); Foreword by John Rockwell; Preface by Johannes Goebel
From the rear cover
"Who knew, prior to this lovingly detailed account, that five musical discontents could construct what amounted to a cultural particle accelerator in a small San Franciscan house? This book allows readers a window onto the confluence of artistry, innovation, drugs, sexuality, poverty, resourcefulness and, most importantly, the sense of fun that permeated the air during those years."--Richard Henderson, critic for The Wire magazine
"As I devoured this vibrantly detailed history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, I found myself wishing repeatedly that I'd been born a couple of decades earlier, so I could have been present for a string of historic events: the debut of the Don Buchla synthesizer, the premiere of Terry Riley's In C, Ramon Sender's Tropical Fish Opera, Pauline Oliveros's multimedia concert at the Trips Festival. The heroes of the Center were in the business of realizing unimagined possibilities, and they did much to shape the legendary culture of San Francisco in the later sixties."--Alex Ross
"Hats off to David Bernstein for flooding a dark corner of recent musical history with new light, as warm as it is brilliant."--Richard Taruskin, author of The Oxford History of Western Music
"This high-voltage oral history takes us straight back to the West Coast epicenter of experimental music in the early 1960s, where synthesizers and tape loops met light shows and LSD, and Merry Pranksters hung with the masters of minimalism. Reading it is like visiting a foreign country and realizing you were born there."--Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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- Title The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
- Author David Bernstein (Editor); Foreword by John Rockwell; Preface by Johannes Goebel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Pap/DVD
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, BERKELEY, CA
- Date 2008-07-08
- ISBN 9780520256170 / 0520256174
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.88 x 6.99 x 0.89 in (25.10 x 17.75 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Northern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Library of Congress subjects Electronic music - History and criticism, Avant-garde (Music) - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007040979
- Dewey Decimal Code 786.709
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