Index



Background
Published in the Whitney Biennial 2012 catalog.[1]
- "In the Museum’s Lower Gallery, visitors can view and supplement a wiki-style digital index (originally published in the Biennial exhibition catalogue) that traces the band’s numerous, intricately interconnected networks."
- "Their Biennial project includes an index of more than four hundred entries covering their diverse membership, affiliations, and concerns (on view in the Lower Gallery)."
Index
A
Absolute Music
accessibility
accommodation
AC/DC
Acid Rock
Adorno, Theodor W.
Afghanistan, the war in
aggression
ambience; —ambiance
ambiguity; —types of
ambiguity —universal; —understandable; —too much/too little; worthy; —blind; —deluded; —gouging; —in a work of art
American Music Rolls, masters of the
Anderson, Luana
Andrus, Walt
AOR
apexart; —Tim Griffin; —Bennett Simpson
Armstrong, Louis
arrangement
art —the very idea; —the work of
Art & Language; —collaboration; —A&L (UK); A&L (NY); Art-Language; —The Fox 1–3; —Red Herring; —A&L (Provisional); —The Fox 4
Art & Language Paints a Picture
Art Rock
Artforum
"artworld, the"
audience
aura; —patina
authenticity
autonomy
avant-garde; —substitutes, cognates
Ayler, Albert and Donald
B
Banks, George
Barker, Danny
Barker, Dave
Barthelme, Frederick; —the Barthelme Family
Beatles, The
beatniks
Bennie & Smith
Berry, Chuck
Blondet, Jose-Luis
Blum, Tim
von Bonin, Cosima
bootleg recording; —records
Borden, Lizzie
“Born in Flames”/“The Sword of God” (I, II)
Bowie, David
Brown, Glenn
Bubblegum
Buchholz Gallery Cologne
C
Cage, John
camp
Capitalism
Caracos, Jean
Carl, Rüdiger
Carpenter, Merlin
“Chemistry”/“Farewell to Arms”
Clark, Anne
Clark, Guy
class
“classic, the”
Cockettes, The
Coleman, Ornette; —harmolodics
Communism
concepts; —possession; —capacity; —extension
Conceptual Art
content
Corrected Slogans; —Lp/CD; —the musical comedy
Country & Western: —Outlaw Country
cover
Crawdaddy
Crayola Crayons
crayon
Cream
Creem
Cunningham, Steve; —the Cunningham Family
Cuthell, Dick
D
“Dairymaid’s Lament”/“Free Piece”
Dance; —dance and music
Davis, Miles
Del Vikings, The
Denson, Ed
Description, Theory of
Disco; —dance floor
djs
Domino, Antoine “Fats”
Doors, The
Dorau, Andreas
Dower, Alex
Draper, Simon
Dreher, Christoph
Driscoll, Mike
Drummond, Paul
Duchamp, Marcel
Dylan, Bob
E
Electro
Emo
emotions
empire
Eno, Brian
epistemology
Erickson, Roky
“Eve of Destruction”
expression
F
failure; —the concept; —the facts
fame; —notoriety
Farrar, “Red” George
Fascism
fashion
Ferrari, Luc
fidelity
FM radio
Folk-rock
form; —the formal; —the informal; —formalism; see also Modernist Formalism
Foucault, Michel
Frame, Pete
Francis, Sam
freedom
free improvisation
Froman, Mark
function; —design; —default
Fugs, The
funk; —funky; —Funk
G
Gaye, Angus
Gerson, Skipper
Getty, The
Gilbert, Chris
Glam Rock
glamour; see also aura
Glennie, Ian
Gnam, Manuel
Go-Ahead Booking
God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Goodman, Marian
Goodman, Nelson
“Green Door”
Grenada, the invasion of
groups and groupies
Gulf War, The
H
hack
Haino, Keiji
“Hard Rock Café”
Heavy Metal
Hendrix, Jimi; —Trio, The
Hermann, Tom
Hertz, Richard
Hip-Hop
hippies
hit song
hoax; —the very idea; see failure
Hoet, Jan
holism
hootenanny
Horowitz, Ira
House
Hunter, Fredericka
I
ICA London
idealism
ideas, —million-dollar; —dime a dozen; —hybrids
identity; —personation; —role playing
Iggy: —Stooge; —Pop
improvisation
industries; —The Culture Industry; —the music industry
innovation; —novelty; see also novelty songs
insurgency
Intelligent Life in the Universe
interpretation; —open texts;
—asymmetry; —privilege;
—transcendence
Iraq, the war in
irony
Irwin, Robert
J
Japan Records
Jazz
Jefferson Airplane; —Jefferson Starship
Johnson, Sue
Johnston, Lynn
K
karaoke
Kelley, Mike
Kidron, Adam
Kinks, The
Kippenberger, Martin
kitsch
Knoebel, Carmen and Imi
König, Kasper; see Portikus
Krauss, Scott
Krebber, Michael
Kunsthalle Graz
Kunstverein Graz
L
Lauder, Andrew
laws, rules, standards, norms, conventions
Libertarianism
lightshow
Little Richard
logic
Louisiana Gallery, The
love
Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine, The
M
Maimone, Tony
Mathieu, Konrad
Mayr, Matthias
MC5
media
mediation; —the very idea
medium
memory
von Meier, Kurt
Metyko, Mike and Barbara
“Microchips & Fish”/“The Story So Far”
Minimalism
misrepresentation; see representation
model
modern, the
monophonic recording
MOR Radio
“Mother”
Mother
Mozart, W. A.; —instrumental and vocal music; —opera; —Lorenzo da Ponte; Five American Portraits—Ad Reinhardt
Mulier Mulier Gallery
Music; —as organized sound; —in itself; —in and as chaos; —the culture and sociality of; —meaning, use and exchange; —authorship and ownership; —History of; —politics of; —production and distribution of; —functional types: academic, popular; —commercial music; —genre; —professional, amateur; —Theory of; —ontology; —Physics/Chemistry/Biology; —instrumentality, intension and extension; —systems and approaches; —style; —objectification: instruments and devices, materials; —potential and possibility given phenomenal effect and affect; —the mind-body distinction and other philosophical puzzles; —states of being; performance: scores, improvisation
Music-Language (BMI)
music-minus-one
Mutesong
Muzak®
N
Nakahara, Masaya
necessity
New Age
New Orleans House
“New Stream”
New Wave; —“no wave”
Nine Gross & Conspicuous Errors
Nono, Luigi
O
Oban, George
“Oh-bla-di”
Ohio
“Old Man’s Dream”/“The Milkmaid”
Ono, Yoko
Otomo, Yoshihide
overlap; —overlay
P
Panama, the invasion of
Parsons, Tony
perfect; —perfection
performance
Penmann, Ian
Pharmacology
Philip Glass Ensemble, The
Piering, Scott
Portikus
Post-modernism
pre-modern
pretense
Prinzhorn, Martin
Pritchett, Holly, Joe and Pat
Pryde, Josephine
Psychedelic Music
Psychology
punk
Q
quality
quantity
“querelle”
quiddity
R
Ra, Sun
radio; —Top 40; —Pacifica; —radio play; —“payola”
Rap
rave
“Rebellation Generation”
recidivism
record
reference; —referentiality; —types of; —modal aspect in
repetition
representation
Reynolds, Simon
Rhythm & Blues
Richter, Tommy
Rivers, Bea and Sam
“roadie”
Rock ’n’ Boll
Rogers, Lelan; —Kenny
Rogerson, Tom
Rollet, Quentin “Q”
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones, The
Rough Trade; —Music/Records
Rush, Ray
S
Savage, Jon
Schöneberger, Jürgen
Scott, Richard and family
Semiotics
Sharp, Claude and F. Cavett
Shawyer, Ivor
singer/song
Slayer
Slezak, Rudi
Smiley High School
Smith, Mike; —Portal Excursion
Socialism
solidarity; —individual, family, community, neighborhood, national, international
Sound: —The Physics of; —psychoacoustics; —presence, absence; —hearing and listening; —organization; —as music; —atmosphere, realism, naturalism; —recognition: familiarity, similarity, reference
Sound Art
soundtrack music for screen/stage
sponsorship; —‘this burning man indicates…’
state, the; —anarchy; —utopia
Steffek, Keith
Steirischer Herbst (Graz)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Struggle in New York: “…and now for something completely different”
substitutes: —stand-ins; —specters
Sunshine Records (Hamburg)
T
Tapier Music (BMI)
Techno
technology
teeny bopper
teleology
television
theatre
Thompson, Hazel Muhl
Thompson, Marilyn
Thompson, Mayo; —Mayo J., Sr.
Three Songs on a Trip to the United States/Bismarckstr. 50
Top of the Pops
total recall
Trance
transformation
trend
turntablism
U
United States of America, The
V
Varèse, Edgard
Vietnam War, The
van Vliet, Don
Vogelauer, Maria
W
Walmsley, Pete
“War Pigs”
Warhol, Andy; —The Exploding Plastic Inevitable; —The Velvet Underground
“We Built This City”
Weltanschauung
White, Chris
Whitney Museum of American Art, —Whitney Biennial; —in the work of Art & Language
Who, The
Wire, The
Wood, Rosemary
Woronov, Mary
Y
Yonemoto; —Bruce; —Norman
Yoshimoto, Sachiyo
Young, Neil
Z
Zappa, Frank; see also van Vliet