Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes, by Brigid Cohen

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Review| April 01 2023 Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes, by Brigid Cohen Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes, by Brigid Cohen. New Material Histories of Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. x, 379 pp. Kirsten Speyer Carithers Kirsten Speyer Carithers KIRSTEN SPEYER CARITHERS is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Louisville. Research and teaching interests include music and technology, critical theory, experimentalism, gender, and the connections between indeterminacy, improvisation, and creative labor. Her first book, Interpretive Labor: Experimental Music at Work, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2023) 76 (1): 256–259. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.1.256 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kirsten Speyer Carithers; Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes, by Brigid Cohen. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2023; 76 (1): 256–259. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.1.256 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Scholars of new and contemporary music, especially of the postwar avant-garde, have benefitted from a remarkably rich collection of source material for their work. Despite this wealth, certain individuals and developments emerged as “central” or “primary” figures and movements in early histories of the era, imposing a temporary but influential narrowing of the field. Happily, researchers of experimental music have already initiated a much-needed shift toward diverse, critical engagement with the repertoire and its practitioners, and Brigid Cohen’s new monograph, part of the University of Chicago Press’s exciting series New Material Histories of Music, is among the most significant of these interventions. While the aforementioned abundance of sources could conceivably encourage accounts that are unfocused or overly abstract, Cohen’s carefully researched text draws upon its various sources to present a cohesive, compelling narrative of physical and cultural migration during the early Cold War era. In Musical Migration and Imperial New... You do not currently have access to this content.