Overview

Intermedia art—an avant-garde multimedia practice that combines sound and moving images—took root in Japan alongside other places in the 1960s. In Transpacific Experiments, Miki Kaneda analyzes intermedia as a practice that gives form to errant possibilities, unfolding in spaces of the everyday, to offer nuanced insights into the global flow of ideas, influence, and discourses of appropriation. The stories of intermedia art throughout the study offer feminist and transnational perspectives on experimental music and art that disorient existing narratives about the experimental and political in unexpected ways. Transpacific Experiments contends that social, cultural, and political arrangements local to Japan had a greater influence on the transnational experimental music scene than previously acknowledged. Kaneda’s perspective extends, exceeds, and at times unsettles frameworks for experimental practices, revealing the limitations of any single political or aesthetic lens.

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Author:   Miki Kaneda
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:  

9780472057948

ISBN 10:   0472057944
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

About the Cover Image Note on Names and Language List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue – The John Cage Shock was a Fiction: The 1960s Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Music as a Transnational Practice Introduction – The Inappropriate Avant-Garde: Intermedia in 1960s Japan Chapter 1 – The Sogetsu Art Center: The ba of the Mundane Archive Chapter 2 – Archival Absences and Conditional Listening: How Jazz Shaped Experimental Music in 1960s Japan Chapter 3 – Cross Talk Intermedia: The Aesthetics of Miscommunication, and Cultural Diplomacy Chapter 4 – Expo’70: The Pinnacle or Intermedia, or, the Avant-Garde Faces Some Conundrums Chapter 5 – Talismans and Relics: Intermedia EXPO in the 21st Century Coda: Imagining a Transpacific Avant-Garde, of the sea Notes Bibliography Index

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Miki Kaneda is Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities at New York University.

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