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Talking music, conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers, William Duckworth

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Talking music, conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers, William Duckworth

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Talking music

Oclc number

40076559

Responsibility statement

William Duckworth

Sub title

conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers

Summary

Talking Music is comprised of substantial original conversations with seventeen American experimental composers and musicians--including Milton Babbitt, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, and John Zorn--many of whom rarely grant interviews.The author skillfully elicits candid dialogues that encompass technical explorations; questions of method, style, and influence; their personal lives and struggles to create; and their aesthetic goals and artistic declarations. Herein, John Cage recalls the turning point in his career; Ben Johnston criticizes the operas of his teacher Harry Partch; La Monte Young attributes his creative discipline to a Morman childhood; and much more. The results are revelatory conversations with some of America's most radical musical innovators [Publisher description]

Table Of Contents

Experimentalists. John Cage ; Conlon Nancarrow ; Milton Babbitt ; Lou Harrison -- The avant-garde. Ben Johnston ; Pauline Oliveros ; Christian Wolff -- Minimalists. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela ; Terry Riley ; Steve Reich, Philip Glass -- Performance artists. Meredith Monk ; Laurie Anderson -- Post-moderns. "Blue" Gene Tyranny ; Glenn Branca ; John Zorn

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