Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music is now available right here! The complete contents of my book, first published in 1990, have been transferred to my website:
CONTENTS
I. Glenn Branca
1. Essay
2. Interview
3. Major Works
II. Fred Frith
1. Essay
2. Interview
III. “Blue” Gene Tyranny
1. Essay
2. Interview
3. Major Works
IV. The Residents
1. Essay
2. Major Works
For more on these composers, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
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For more on Glenn Branca, see:
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
For more on Glenn Branca and The Residents, see:
Music: Radio Show #7, Postmodernism, part 4: Three Contemporary Masters
For more on Glenn Branca and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
For more on Fred Frith and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music: Radio Show #6, Postmodernism, part 3: Three Contemporary Masters
For more on The Residents, see:
Film Review: The Eyes Scream
Film Review: Triple Trouble
Music Lecture: My Experiences of Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music
Music: Radio Show #26, Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music
Music: Radio Show #27, 20th-Century Music on the March
For more on “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music Essay: You Can Always Go Downtown
Music Essay: 88 Keys to Freedom: Segues Through the History of American Piano Music by “Blue” Gene Tyranny
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
And be sure to read David Bernabo’s book Just for the Record: Conversations with and about “Blue” Gene Tyranny
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