
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born
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Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
University of California Press
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Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music.
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