KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ New Music America: 1981: Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Music Critics John Rockwell & Charles Shere

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interviews

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

NMA.1981.06.12

Program Series

New Music America

Program Length

21 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 1981-06-12 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian engages former KPFA music programers and current music critics, John Rockwell and Charles Shere, in a fascinating discussion about the state of New Music and the New Music America Festivals. The difference between academic avant-garde music concerts and the more adventurous programing of multi-media works, new wave rock bands, and sound installations featured at the New Music America Festivals, is fully explored. The appropriate size of such events and the correct role of the music critic in promoting or reviewing such concerts is also touched upon in this, at time contentious, but always cordial, discussion.

Genres

New music
Avant-garde

Subjects

New music
Avant-garde (Music)
Music festivals
Music critics

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Rockwell, John, 1940-
Shere, Charles, 1935-2020