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| Title | : | Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822314738 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Autonomeus said Imaginative scintillations. "The sententious critic puts me to sleep. I would prefer a critic of imaginative scintillations. He would not be sovereign, nor dressed in red. He would bear the lightning flashes of possible storms." --Michel FoucaultCorbett seems to operate according to Foucault's injunction, and bears quite a few lightning flashes, due to his playful imagination and the imagination of the cutting edge artists he covers. "Extended Play" puts Cage and Clinton in the title, but actually focuses on free jazz/improvisation, not composition or funk.Corbett presents marvelous interviews with European free improvisers, including saxophonists Evan Parker and Pet. Ushering in a new era of popular culture criticism? gauze@eagle.cc.ukans.edu Like Greil Marcus and Robert Palmer, Corbett looks at (popular?) culture as both a product of and a determinant of culture at large. As a postmodernist, he delves into genres that are largely devoid of quality criticism as few are up to the task. Actually he's probably more of a Nat Hantoff or Frank Kofsky of our time in that he's quick to support what may commonly be refered to as music that tries its listeners patience and willingness to explore. I used this book as a reference for my thesis and have recommended it to several people.
In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. 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. 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
A "Guide to Further Listening" provides a brief discography for each of the book's subjects. Corbett's profile of Pinetop Perkins chronicles the piano great's career with such blues legends as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker while his 1992 interview with John Cage is as provocative in its structure as the acclaimed composer's work. The late Sun Ra and such unacknowledged living geniuses of "free" music as Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Peter Brotzmann receive their due as well. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Extended Play offers rare, caring glimpses of gifted musicians few music fans know, but should. . The artist profiles and interviews are characterized by a looser, friendlier variety of authority. From Publishers Weekly Corbett's
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