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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 American composers/performers working today. He has been a fixture of New York's Downtown Scene since the mid-70s as a tireless proponent of avant-garde and experimental music. Despite the acclaim and respect he has achieved in America and abroad, very little attention has been paid to Zorn by musicologists or music theorists. Author John Brackett suggests that the reason for the relative paucity of writing on Zorn's music and musical thought has to do with the difficulties and challenges they present both for listeners and scholars. Zorn's musical language--an amalgam of seemingly incongruous techniques, sounds, styles, and genres--creates complex and sometimes confusing listening experiences that are difficult to categorize in terms of overarching thematic or narrative design. Brackett offers a number of perspectives for understanding Zorn's music and musical practices, while challenging certain assumptions that limit the ways in which contemporary music is typically addressed.
Synopsis:The first full-length study of avant-garde American composer John Zorn
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