| Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein Contributor(s): Corbett, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822314568 ISBN-13: 9780822314561 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: "One of the most important aspects of Corbett's trawl along the musical fringe is that it denies the genre definitions that usually constrain music books--this is not a book about jazz or rock or art music but about all of them. It is precisely this which enables him to address the broad questions about the effect of technology, globalization, etc. on our sense of what it is to make and listen to music. An outstanding work--lucidly written, well organized, engaged, and intelligent. It is certainly one of the most stimulating books on music I've read in the last couple of years."--Simon Frith, author of "Sound Effects" and "Music for Pleasure" "Fascinating and at times brilliant, "Extended Play" addresses a number of issues that circle around 'music' in ways that are new and stimulating, and explores them with wit, intelligence, and sophistication. Corbett is an important thinker, as well as a good journalist--a rare combination."--John Szwed, John Musser Professor of African and Afro-American studies, American studies, Music, and Anthropology, Yale University "Yes, contemporary musical creativity is alive and well and well-celebrated in this valuable book. Great music that often has audiences of three people is here discussed along with great music that has audiences of thousands."--Michael Snow, film, sound, and visual artist, and editor of a collection of essays, "Music/Sound" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 780.904 |
| LCCN: 93-43239 |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 6.2" W x 9.52" (1.78 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae. Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world's most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today. |
