[NewMusic] Essential texts?

[Jon Raskin]

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey has really interesting things to say about culture
and place, especially of the western US. 

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Lot of good writings mentioned; although I guess it depends on what you mean
by "this" music. I'd also put out there:

Source texts:
The liner notes to Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor, which I'd also recommend
read with it's influences:
          Projective Verse - Charles Olsen; Toward and Open Universe -
Robert Duncan
	Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth - Nag Hammadi texts (This would
have been a later influence, particularly on Taylor's Calling It the Eighth)
The Harmony of the Spheres- A Source Book for the Pythagorean Tradition in
Music - Ed. Joscelyn Godwin
       ( all the great stuff from Plato through the Enlightenment) L'Arte
Dei Rumori - Luigi Russolo Software for People - Pauline Oliveros

History and commentary:
New Musical Figurations - Ronald Radano
John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's - Frank Kofsky Noise -
Jaque Attali Prisms - Theodor Adorno

Theory:
Harmonic Experience - W.A. Mathieu (Despite the New-Agey presentation, still
the best book on acoustics and tonal theory) Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos
- James Tenney Feminine Endings - Susan McClary The Society of the Spectical
- Guy DeBord

Also important for me in a roundabout way:
The Social and Religious Designs of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti - Michael
Marissen
       What the hell, you ask? Well, the deep analysis of the scoring,
melodic and harmonic content, and structure shows how deeply embedded these
things are in the culture that produced them, and gives us a small
indication of the meaning that these works MAY have had to the folks that
heard and produced them. It's not a very far step to look at music today in
the same way. . .

And of course:
I Hate the Man who Runs This Bar - Eugene Chadbourne




>> music? A couple that pop to mind for me are the "Arcana" anthology 
>> edited by John Zorn and Cage's "Silence".
>
> this is a highly subjective matter. a sampling of my music related
> bookshelf:
>
> as serious as your life - valerie wilmer trackings - richard dufallo 
> forces in motion - graham lock free jazz - ekkehard jost from the 
> velvets to the voidoids - clinton heylin the freedom principle - john 
> litweiler
> 4 lives in the bebop business - a.b. spellman american hardcore 
> structural functions of harmony - schoenburg the technique of my 
> musical language - messiaen the black giants black music - leroi jones 
> sonic transports - cole gagne genesis of a music - harry partch 
> formalized music - iannis xenakis psychotic reactions and carburetor 
> dung - lester bangs non-western music and the western listener lords 
> of chaos trouser press record guide lunar notes - bill harkleroad 
> whitehouse compendium rationalizing culture - georgie born frank 
> zappa-the negative dialectics of poodle play - ben watson throbbing 
> gristle-wreckers of civilization - simon ford american pioneers: from 
> ives to cage and beyond
>
> scores:
>
> stravinsky - rite of spring, requiem canticles copeland - connotations 
> for orchestra messiaen - sept haikai, l'ascension boulez - le marteau 
> sans maitre varese - hyperprism, ionisation stockhausen - zeitmasse 
> penderecki - threnody webern - string trio op. 20 xenakis - akrata, 
> eonta, charisma, analogique 'a', mikka, st-4 carter - double concerto 
> for harpsichord and piano bartok - string quartets
>
> i downloaded all this stuff into a follicle of hair and i watch it 
> with my dna goggles when i'm whippersnapping.
>
> ww
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