Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties -- 1 Avant-garde: Some Introductory Notes on the Politics of a Label -- Part I: Ideologies -- 2 "Demolish Serious Culture!": Henry Flynt and Workers World Party -- 3 Forms of Opposition at the "Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel" Concert -- 4 Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent -- Part II: Rethinking the Popular -- 5 "Music Is a Universal Human Right": Musica Elettronica Viva -- 6 The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out -- 7 The Politics of Presque rien -- Part III: Politicizing Performance -- 8 ONCE and the Sixties -- 9 "Scream against the Sky": Japanese Avant-garde Music in the Sixties -- Part IV: The Challenge of Institutionalization -- 10 After the October Revolution: The Jazz Avant-garde in New York, 1964-65 -- 11 American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music -- 12 From Scriabin to Pink Floyd: The ANS Synthesizer and the Politics of Soviet Music between Thaw and Stagnation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.