Transfigured New York : : Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990 /

Transfigured New York : : Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990 / / Brooke Wentz.

Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental movements like no wave, avant-jazz, and electronic music. As an undergrad in the 1980s, Brooke Wentz hosted the show Transfigured Night on Columbia University’s WKCR-FM, discussing a...

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Wentz, Brooke,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Columbiana
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 75 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Lee Ranaldo on the Scene
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE FOUNDING THEORISTS: INFLUENTIAL FIGURES OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT AND MUSIC COMPOSITION
  • 1. John Cage
  • 2. La Monte Young
  • PART II. THE MATERIALS SCIENTISTS: PIONEERS OF TAPE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
  • 3. David Behrman
  • 4. Alvin Curran
  • 5. Mario Davidovsky
  • 6. Otto Luening
  • 7. Roger Reynolds
  • 8. Pril Smiley
  • 9. Morton Subotnick
  • 10. Joan Tower
  • 11. Vladimir Ussachevsky
  • PART III. THE COMPOSERS: NOTABLE CONTRIBUTORS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL REPERTOIRE
  • 12. Anthony Davis
  • 13. David Diamond
  • 14. Jacob Druckman
  • 15. Lukas Foss
  • 16. Philip Glass
  • 17. Steve Reich
  • PART IV. THE ICONOCLASTS: ECCENTRIC THOUGHT-PROVOKING PERFORMERS
  • 18. Kelvyn Bell
  • 19. Jean-Paul Bourelly
  • 20. Glenn Branca
  • 21. Fred Frith
  • 22. Wayne Horvitz
  • PART V. THE VOCALISTS: EXPERIMENTERS WITH VOICE AND WORDS
  • 23. Laurie Anderson
  • 24. Joan La Barbara
  • PART VI. THE DISSENTERS: MODERN JAZZ INNOVATORS
  • 25. Andrew Cyrille
  • 26. Bill Frisell
  • 27. Ronald Shannon Jackson
  • 28. Evan Parker
  • PART VII. THE POPULAR AVANT-GARDE: POP IDIOM CROSSOVERS
  • 29. Living Colour
  • 30. Peter Gordon and Arthur Russell
  • 31. John Lurie
  • 32. Andy Partridge
  • PART VIII. THE GLOBAL NOMADS: INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS OF WESTERN THOUGHT
  • 33. Baaba Maal
  • 34. Astor Piazzolla
  • 35. Ravi Shankar
  • PART IX. THE PERFORMANCE ARTISTS: ART MEETS MOVEMENT
  • 36. Eric Bogosian
  • 37. David Harrington
  • 38. Bill T. Jones
  • 39. Margaret Leng Tan
  • 40. Michel Waisvisz
  • Notes
  • Index

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