Transfigured New York - Interviews With Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990

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.

List of 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

About the author

Brooke Wentz is a Billboard Music Award-winning music producer, music supervisor, and former radio host who founded Seven Seas Music and the Rights Workshop. She is a leading expert on music copyrights and former ESPN music director. Her books include Hey! That's My Music: Music Supervision, Licensing, and Content Acquisition (2007) and Music Rights Unveiled: A Filmmaker's Guide to Music Rights and Licensing (2017).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Brooke Wentz, Wentz Brooke
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2023
• EAN: 9780231210881
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21088-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Columbiana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, New York, New York City, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Avant-garde, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Popular Music, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1980 to c 1989, Electronic Music, music; literary collections; performing arts