The Negation of a Negation Fixed in a Form: Luigi Nono and the Italian Counter-culture 1964–1979

Timothy S. Murphy

doi:10.5130/csr.v11i2.3661

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Published: Oct 25, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i2.3661

Keywords:

counter-culture, Italy, 1968, 1970s, avante-garde, music, sociopolitical revolution, Luigi Nono

Timothy S. Murphy

University of Oklahoma

Abstract

My goal in what follows is to trace the role of avant-garde music in the rise and development of the Italian counter-culture from the early 1960s until its destruction at the end of the 1970s. Instead of approaching this issue along quantitative, sociological lines, I will focus on one figure whose simultaneous engagement with musical innovation and sociopolitical revolution was exemplary in its intent (though exceptional in its extent): the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, whose career parallels the rise of the Italian counter-culture during the 1960s and early 1970s. I will also briefly examine how the forcible destruction of the Italian counter-culture in 1979 is reflected in the last phase of Nono’s musical career.

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2005): Italian Effects

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Italian Effects (Peer Reviewed)

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Timothy S. Murphy, University of Oklahoma

Timothy S Murphy, currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1997), general editor of the journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, and translator of works by Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.

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Timothy S. Murphy, University of Oklahoma