Paul Steinbeck
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226375960
- eISBN:
- 9780226376011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226376011.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 6 centers on the Art Ensemble’s activities during the 1970s. Back home in America, the musicians worked to build a larger domestic audience, a task that became easier after they signed with ...
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Chapter 6 centers on the Art Ensemble’s activities during the 1970s. Back home in America, the musicians worked to build a larger domestic audience, a task that became easier after they signed with Atlantic Records. They also formalized the cooperative practices that they first implemented in France, establishing Art Ensemble of Chicago Operations (AECO), a corporation held equally by the five members of the group. But the most significant change to their social model was a new ethic of personal autonomy. The musicians set up separate residences and launched independent side projects that could generate supplemental income when the Art Ensemble was on hiatus. This arrangement allowed them to reinvest even more of the band’s earnings, which increased throughout the 1970s as the Art Ensemble toured the United States, Europe, and Japan.Less
Chapter 6 centers on the Art Ensemble’s activities during the 1970s. Back home in America, the musicians worked to build a larger domestic audience, a task that became easier after they signed with Atlantic Records. They also formalized the cooperative practices that they first implemented in France, establishing Art Ensemble of Chicago Operations (AECO), a corporation held equally by the five members of the group. But the most significant change to their social model was a new ethic of personal autonomy. The musicians set up separate residences and launched independent side projects that could generate supplemental income when the Art Ensemble was on hiatus. This arrangement allowed them to reinvest even more of the band’s earnings, which increased throughout the 1970s as the Art Ensemble toured the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Paul Steinbeck
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226375960
- eISBN:
- 9780226376011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226376011.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 3 focuses on the Art Ensemble’s Paris debut in the summer of 1969. The Chicagoans were an overnight success, rapidly finding performance opportunities, recording contracts, and enthusiastic ...
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Chapter 3 focuses on the Art Ensemble’s Paris debut in the summer of 1969. The Chicagoans were an overnight success, rapidly finding performance opportunities, recording contracts, and enthusiastic audiences. Paris-based critics also embraced the Art Ensemble, although their reviews often emphasized the actual and imagined political content of the band’s music, reflecting concurrent debates on colonialism and Vietnam, as well as enduring misrepresentations of black performance in France. During this pivotal period, the musicians began practicing cooperative economics, sharing all earnings and expenses, a practice that became the foundation of their social model. Cooperation helped the group members thrive in their new surroundings, and they commemorated the partnership by renaming their band the Art Ensemble of Chicago.Less
Chapter 3 focuses on the Art Ensemble’s Paris debut in the summer of 1969. The Chicagoans were an overnight success, rapidly finding performance opportunities, recording contracts, and enthusiastic audiences. Paris-based critics also embraced the Art Ensemble, although their reviews often emphasized the actual and imagined political content of the band’s music, reflecting concurrent debates on colonialism and Vietnam, as well as enduring misrepresentations of black performance in France. During this pivotal period, the musicians began practicing cooperative economics, sharing all earnings and expenses, a practice that became the foundation of their social model. Cooperation helped the group members thrive in their new surroundings, and they commemorated the partnership by renaming their band the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
