Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the by Georgina Born

By Georgina Born

Anthropologist Georgina Born offers one of many first ethnographies of a strong western cultural association, the well known Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economic system of an establishment for study and construction of avant-garde and desktop track. She supplies a special portrait of IRCAM's composers, laptop scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the consequences of the cultural philosophy of the debatable avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute till 1992.

Born depicts an enormous inventive establishment attempting to retain its prestige and legitimacy in an period more and more ruled by means of industry forces, and in a risky political and cultural weather. She illuminates the erosion of the legitimacy of paintings and technological know-how within the face of starting to be advertisement and political pressures. via tracing how IRCAM has attempted to accomodate those pressures whereas holding its autonomy, Born unearths the contradictory results of institutionalizing an avant-garde.

Contrary to people who see postmodernism representing an accord among excessive and pop culture, Born stresses the continuities among modernism and postmodernism and the way postmodernism itself embodies an implicit antagonism towards well known culture.

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