Date of Award
Spring 1996
Degree Type
Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis
Degree Name
History, MA
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Robin Walz
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Robert Dawidoff
Terms of Use & License Information
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Rights Information
© 1996 David J. Mittleman
Keywords
Avant-Garde, Jazz, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), College of Sociology
Abstract
Collections are mysterious things. A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related elements often coalesce into forms called texts, which are read for their formal coherence as individual entities. Walter Benjamin, while at times interested in the formal attributes of a specific text, alerts us to the possibility of a greater significance through the act of book collecting. Placing texts in new and different proximities to other texts, what Benjamin refers to as "unpacking," can highlight "lines of flight" (Deleuze/Guattari, p. 12) that can lead one to knowledge only hinted at in individual texts.
Recommended Citation
Mittleman, David J.. (1996). The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the College of Sociology: Avant-Garde Collectives in Contact. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 155. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/155.
