The Scores Project Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950-1975 accessible through the UH library catalog
The Scores Project…, co-edited by UH Art History professor Dr. Natilee Harren, is an open access resource now accessible virtually through the UH library catalog. UH Resource Description Librarian Armin Lopez and the Head of Resource Management and Metadata Leonard Martin were responsible for linking it to the UH Libraries’ virtual platforms.
The Scores Project is, as Dr. Harren states, a piece of genre-busting scholarship—an open-access digital publication, research archive, interactive teaching tool, virtual exhibition, and print book all in one. See the description below for more information:
The Scores Project Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975
Edited by Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks, with Contributions by Emily Ruth Capper, George E. Lewis, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Benjamin Picket, and Nancy Perloff
Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid–twentieth century began to use experimental scores in ways that revolutionized artistic practice and opened up new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their experimental methods—associated with the neo-avant-garde,neo-Dadaism, intermedia, Fluxus, and postmodernism—exploded in notoriety during the 1960s in locales from New York to Europe, East Asia, and Latin America, becoming foundational to global trends in contemporary art and performance.
The Scores Project provides an in-depth view of this historical moment. Through expert commentaries from an interdisciplinary team of scholars with accompanying illustrations, this publication examines a series of experimental scores by John Cage, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Yvonne Rainer, Mieko Shiomi, David Tudor, and La Monte Young. Ambitious, provocative, and playful, The Scores Project is an illuminating resource to scholars and students who seek to understand this innovative and historically complex moment in the history of art.