Laura Emmery
Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945–1991 (Book)
292 pages, 244 x 170mm, with figures and music examples. Published by Cambridge University Press in the Music since 1900 series, paperback. Zagreb, June 1961. On the programme: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Mauricio Kagel, Witold Lutosławski, the Darmstadt serialists, the tape pieces coming out of Paris, Milan and Cologne, and the experiments of John Cage. In a communist country that had spent the previous fifteen years under socialist realism, with closed borders and almost no contac…