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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsJohn Zorn: Tradition and Transgressionby John Brackett
Review-A-Day"Indeed, no matter where we maintain residence, we also lately live in one great cyberspace city, a megalopolis monstrously located nowhere, or entirely inside our own heads. With this virtual rise comes the physical's fall, and so it feels, here in New York, where I'm writing this, that there are, particularly among younger artists, no common corners anymore, no shared streets. The Internet's disruption of New York's socioeconomic ripple that historically located arts neighborhoods concentrically further from Midtown's concentrated power means that Downtown could be anywhere — that the underground has, finally, moved. But where to? Brooklyn? Or www.brooklyn.com? The most notable new music after Zorn's might be the whirring hum of the fan that cools a computer's circuits from fevered searching." Joshua Cohen, Harper's Magazine (read the entire Harper's review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:John Zorn is one of the most prolific and active Americancomposers/performers working today. He has been a fixture of New York's DowntownScene since the mid-70s as a tireless proponent of avant-garde and experimentalmusic. Despite the acclaim and respect he has achieved in America and abroad, verylittle attention has been paid to Zorn by musicologists or music theorists. AuthorJohn Brackett suggests that the reason for the relative paucity of writing on Zorn'smusic and musical thought has to do with the difficulties and challenges theypresent both for listeners and scholars. Zorn's musical language — an amalgam ofseemingly incongruous techniques, sounds, styles, and genres — creates complex andsometimes confusing listening experiences that are difficult to categorize in termsof overarching thematic or narrative design. Brackett offers a number ofperspectives for understanding Zorn's music and musical practices, while challengingcertain assumptions that limit the ways in which contemporary music is typicallyaddressed. Synopsis:The first full-length study of avant-garde American composer John Zorn
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