Transfigured New York

Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990

Brooke Wentz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21088-1 (ISBN)

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Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental movements like no wave, avant-jazz, and electronic music. As an undergrad in the 1980s, Brooke Wentz hosted the show Transfigured Night on Columbia University’s WKCR-FM, discussing art and ideas with avant-garde music luminaries. She unearths these candid interviews—heard before only when first broadcast—from cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes, letting readers today feel the excitement and creative energy of the 1980s New York underground scene.

Musicians and artists, now icons of their craft, tell their stories and share their thoughts about the creative process, capturing the ambition and energy that animated their work. Legends in the making like Bill Frisell, Philip Glass, and Laurie Anderson convey what it was like to be a struggling artist in 1980s New York, when the city was alive with possibilities. Others who were well known at the time, including John Cage, La Monte Young, and Ravi Shankar, advocate for their distinctive ideas about art and open up about their creative lives.

Featuring an astonishing range of interviewees—Morton Subotnick, Joan Tower, Steve Reich, Glenn Branca, Joan La Barbara, Living Colour, Arthur Russell, John Lurie, Eric Bogosian, Bill T. Jones, and many more—Transfigured New York provides new insight into the city’s cultural landscape in this era. It is a one-of-a-kind account of one of the most exhilarating and inventive periods for art and culture in New York City’s history.

Brooke Wentz is a Billboard Music Award–winning music producer, music supervisor, and former radio host who founded Seven Seas Music and the Rights Workshop. She is a leading expert on music copyrights and former ESPN music director. Her books include Hey! That’s My Music: Music Supervision, Licensing, and Content Acquisition (2007) and Music Rights Unveiled: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Music Rights and Licensing (2017).

Lee Ranaldo on the Scene
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Founding Theorists: Influential Figures of Contemporary Thought and Music Composition
1. John Cage
2. La Monte Young
Part II. The Materials Scientists: Pioneers of Tape and Electronic Music
3. David Behrman
4. Alvin Curran
5. Mario Davidovsky
6. Otto Luening
7. Roger Reynolds
8. Pril Smiley
9. Morton Subotnick
10. Joan Tower
11. Vladimir Ussachevsky
Part III. The Composers: Notable Contributors of Contemporary Musical Repertoire
12. Anthony Davis
13. David Diamond
14. Jacob Druckman
15. Lukas Foss
16. Philip Glass
17. Steve Reich
Part IV. The Iconoclasts: Eccentric Thought-Provoking Performers
18. Kelvyn Bell
19. Jean-Paul Bourelly
20. Glenn Branca
21. Fred Frith
22. Wayne Horvitz
Part V. The Vocalists: Experimenters with Voice and Words
23. Laurie Anderson
24. Joan La Barbara
Part VI. The Dissenters: Modern Jazz Innovators
25. Andrew Cyrille
26. Bill Frisell
27. Ronald Shannon Jackson
28. Evan Parker
Part VII. The Popular Avant-Garde: Pop Idiom Crossovers
29. Living Colour
30. Peter Gordon and Arthur Russell
31. John Lurie
32. Andy Partridge
Part VIII. The Global Nomads: International Superstars of Western Thought
33. Baaba Maal
34. Astor Piazzolla
35. Ravi Shankar
Part IX. The Performance Artists: Art Meets Movement
36. Eric Bogosian
37. David Harrington
38. Bill T. Jones
39. Margaret Leng Tan
40. Michel Waisvisz
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Columbiana
Zusatzinfo	75 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-231-21088-4 / 0231210884
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21088-1 / 9780231210881
Zustand	Neuware