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Invisible Republic International Conference on Music, Lettrism and the Avant-Gardes

The idea of unknown countries and invisible republics that lie beneath our eyes, a subterranean dimension that is striving to take its own form and structure in order to produce something new, are part of contemporary forms of protest and rehabilitation. Lettrism and post-war vanguards were part of the general insatisfaction of times but still produced a fair amount of formidable works and legacy.

The conference aims at explore this connections and dimensions putting apparently distant groups and movements in an unexpected harmony. An harmony made not of a continuous progress, but full of contradictions, setbacks and surprises.

The open access book, Music, the Avant-Garde and Counterculture: Invisible Republics, was published yesterday by Palgrav...
05/12/2024

The open access book, Music, the Avant-Garde and Counterculture: Invisible Republics, was published yesterday by Palgrave Macmillan and will be available in print in 2025. Today we already have more than a thousand accesses!

This is an open access book. It studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries.

An Enchanted book by Andrew Hussey on Isou, who else?
14/01/2022

An Enchanted book by Andrew Hussey on Isou, who else?

Within Hussey’s telling of Isou’s life as extravagant Grand Guignol, there is much farce but not much humor.

News from Kevin Reep and the collection at Beinecke Library
22/09/2020

News from Kevin Reep and the collection at Beinecke Library

The Collection of Modern European Books and Manuscripts consists of printed and archival material, photographs, artwork, audio-visual, ephemeral, and product...

Call for contributionsAvant-Garde Studies is a study group and informal network based in London, and we're now looking f...
01/11/2019

Call for contributions
Avant-Garde Studies is a study group and informal network based in London, and we're now looking for short contributions for our blog
https://www.agstudies.co.uk/2019/10/21/call-for-contributions.html It might be a good place to share anything you have that doesn't quite fit elsewhere - offcuts, first thoughts, experimental forms of academic writing, and so on. Paul Ingram

A short film of the first international conference on Lettrism, Music and Counterculture: Invisible Republic
02/05/2019

A short film of the first international conference on Lettrism, Music and Counterculture: Invisible Republic

A short film that presents the international conference "Invisible Republic: Music, Lettrism and the Avant-gardes", in Lisbon, in 2017, with the collaboration…

10/04/2018

Nous, les jeunes de Gaza, on en a marre de cette vie de m***e où nous sommes emprisonnés par Israël, brutalisés par le Hamas et complétement ignorés par la communauté internationale.

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