Revisiting the Historiography of Postwar Avant-Garde Music

Introduction. Revisiting Old Stories of New Music / Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet and Christopher Brent Murray -- Recent Histories of Twentieth-Century Music and the Historiographical Tradition / Martin Kaltenecker -- Continuity in the Creative Auto-Genealogies of Boulez, Stockhausen, Pousseur, and Nono / Pascal Decroupet -- Inventing a Genre : Mauricio Kagel and Instrumental Theater / Jean-François Trubert -- The Songs of Koma Pio and Hele Marsiale in Olivier Messiaen's Île de feu Etudes / Christopher Brent Murray -- A New Patronage Model in Postwar America : Luciano Berio, Philanthropy, and the Economics of Culture / Tiffany Kuo -- Iannis Xenakis and the Men of Information Theory / Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet -- Open Works on Record : An Unsung Mediation / Jonathan Goldman -- Making Audible the Mysteries of Sound : An Alternative Historiography for the Musical Avant-Garde from Varèse to Grisey / Pascal Decroupet.