[NewMusic] Essential texts?

[Joseph Zitt]

Phillip Greenlief wrote:
> BTW: We should all be tossing our own "lists" into this discussion -
> that would make it much better, right? Come on y'all, throw down
> already! And thanks for your list, WW!
>   
OK, here's a quick list of books I'd list, drawn from my current 
bookshelf (and put together into a bibliography with the Zotero plugin 
for Firefox 2.0, which rocks):

Ashley, Robert. Music with roots in the aether : interviews with and 
essays about seven American composers . 1st ed., Koln: MusikTexte, 2000.

Gann, Kyle. American music in the twentieth century . New York ;London: 
Schirmer Books ;;Prentice Hall International, 1997.

Hay, Deborah. Lamb at the altar : the story of a dance . Durham [N.C.]: 
Duke University Press, 1994.

Johnson, Roger. Scores : An Anthology of New Music.. New York :: 
Schirmer Books,  1981.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Text--sound texts . 1st Morrow Quill paperback 
ed., New York: Morrow, 1980.

Mac Low, Jackson. Representative works, 1938-1985 . New York NY: Roof 
Books, 1986.

Nyman, Michael. Experimental music : Cage and beyond . New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1974.

Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit : a book of instructions drawings . New York: 
Simon & Schuster, 1970.

Potter, Keith. Four musical minimalists : La Monte Young, Terry Riley, 
Steve Reich, Philip Glass . Cambridge UK ;;New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2000.

Prevost, Eddie. No sound is innocent : AMM and the practice of 
self-invention, meta-musical narratives, essays . Matching Tye near 
Harlow Essex UK: Copula, 1995.

Small, Christopher. Musicking : the meanings of performing and listening 
. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998.

Tingen, Paul. Miles beyond : the electric explorations of Miles Davis, 
1967-1991 . New York: Billboard Books, 2001.

Zabor, Rafi. The bear comes home . 1st ed., New York: Norton, 1997.