TY - JOUR AU - Citton, Yves PY - 2017/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Review of Pierrepont, Alexandre. 2015. La Nuée. L’AACM: Un Jeu de Société Musicale. Marseille: Éditions Parenthèses. JF - Current Musicology JA - CM VL - 0 IS - 99/100 SE - Book Reviews DO - 10.7916/cm.v0i99/100.5350 UR - https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5350 SP - AB - <p><span style="left: 90px; top: 219.655px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.964673);">The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 241.325px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.955049);">which recently celebrated its 50</span><span style="left: 330.152px; top: 242.778px; font-size: 10.6883px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.09588);">th</span><span style="left: 339.183px; top: 241.322px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.948481);"> birthday, is certainly one of the most </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 262.992px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00271);">important musical movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 284.662px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.943971);">This much we know. This thick and dense book, written by French an-</span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 306.332px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.950425);">thropologist and musical theorist Alexandre Pierrepont over a period of </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 328.002px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.92519);">almost twenty years, demonstrates that, on top of inventing new ways to </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 349.672px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.977786);">make music, the members of the AACM also invented better ways to make </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 371.342px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.958254);">a society. Subtitled </span><span style="left: 227.458px; top: 372.625px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.929365);">A Game-Play of Musical Society</span><span style="left: 453.635px; top: 371.342px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.963643);">, it offers a profound and </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 393.012px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.942552);">joyous analysis of the many strata simultaneously developed in Chicago </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 414.682px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.99219);">beginning in 1965 by African American musicians who had no alternative </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 436.352px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.948102);">but to invent new social relations in order to survive economically and </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 458.022px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.936319);">thrive artistically as creators, in a country doubly biased against African </span><span style="left: 89.9967px; top: 479.692px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.99585);">Americans </span><span style="left: 173.632px; top: 480.975px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03281);">and</span><span style="left: 201.262px; top: 479.692px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.990379);"> against artistic experimentations and lifestyles.</span></p> ER -