November 14, 2008
Thoroughly Modern Music
An insider's history of a Chicago-based movement may finally put it on the map
In 1977 members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a Chicago-based collective of musical experimentalists, marked more than a decade of accomplishment with a four-day festival here. The performances, exclaimed a veteran New Yorker critic, Whitney Balliett, "revealed a ferocious determination to bring into being a new and dur-able music — a hard-nosed utopian music,
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