Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Droit comparé--Aix-Marseille 3, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 327-358. Index.

My dissertation is concerned with two central issues: analysis of theory-practice gaps in aesthetic theories applied to avant-garde musics, and problems of visibility and respect in theorizing across cultures. In the first chapter, I examine a case study, John Coltrane's successive improvisations on "My Favorite Things," under two different theories in order to show how theories shape our view of the practices we are trying to explain. In the second chapter, I take up Coltrane's practices and their relations to theories once again but, in a reversal of the previous chapter's focus, I show how examining theories through practices can reveal these theory-practice gaps and problematic assumptions. I move, from there, to an analysis, informed by feminist standpoint epistemology, of the extent to which political values influence our theory choices and thus help construct our metaphysical views. Out of this discussion, my third chapter argues that attempts to universalize a culturally-situated notion of 'the musical work' (one drawn from Western classical music) do violence to works and artists situated in other cultural traditions. Thus I construct an alternative view of the musical work that I call 'contextualized nominalism' which has the merit of being sensitive to these issues of cultural situation. The fourth chapter explores connections between avant-garde jazz practices and oppositional politics which can be made visible when performances of works are accorded priority over composition. Here I construct a performative notion of community which, in addition to making the most sense of improvisational musical practices, can also be the ground of an 'ethos of improvisation' extendable into other social contexts. Finally I turn to the need for a pluralistic framework in aesthetic evaluation of polycultural artistic processes and products, through a critical examination of universal notions of aesthetic value. I argue, from this and all of the preceding chapters, that where we cross cultures, or mix them, in aesthetic evaluations, we must do so as respectful pluralists and within a pluralist framework.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Rugtitel: Avant-garde culture. Met lit. opg., filmogr. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisors: Dr. Anita González, Florida State University, School of Theatre and Dr. Tricia Young, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Dance. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 15, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 312 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237).

Thesis (doctoral)--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 238 p.; also includes music, graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-238). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-196).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 469-484) and discography (leaves 485-487).

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