TY - BOOK AU - Maconie,Robin TI - Avant garde: an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez SN - 9780810883123 AV - ML197 M171 A 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Scarecrow Press KW - Music KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Avant-garde (Music) KW - United States KW - History N1 - The search for King Kong -- Sacks's agnosia -- How not to listen -- Recording angel -- The secret life of savages -- About Wittgenstein -- La guerre du destin -- Boulez in the underworld -- The French connection -- The poetics of Milton -- An upside down unicycle -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Speaking in tongues -- Two studies -- Recent intelligence -- Art and realpolitik; HKBU library; YT2025 M08 ER -