Microgroove: Forays into Other Music
- Author: Corbett, John
The far-ranging scope of the 53 essays and interviews collected in these nearly 500 pages, dating from 1993 to just last year, reminds us that even within music's commercially neglected fringes... — More…
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- Preface: Tympanum of the Other Frog xv
- Acknowledgments xix
- Introduction 1
- One. On The Road, Into The Cul-De-Sac
- Joe Harriott and Bernie McGann: Flying without Ornette 15
- Michael Hurley: Jocko's Lament 21
- Mayo Thompson: Genre of One 33
- John Stevens: Unpopular Populists 36
- Peter Broetzmann Tentet: Freeways 40
- Steve Lacy: Sojourner Saxophone 49
- David Grubbs: Postcards from the Edge 57
- Voice Crack: From Nothing to Everything 67
- Two. Exigeneses Of Creative Music
- Milford Graves: Pulseology 71
- Out of Nowhere: Deleuze, Grawe, Cadence 79
- Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Feeding Quarters to the Nonstop Mental Jukebox 85
- Misha Mengelberg: No Simple Calculations for Life 93
- Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink: Natural Inbuilt Contrapuncto 109
- Form Follows Faction? Ethnicity and Creative Music 116
- Anthony Braxton: Ism vs. Is 123
- Anthony Braxton: Bildungsmusik-Thoughts on Composition 171 129
- Paul Lowens: Lo Our Lo 132
- Clark Coolidge: The Improvised Line 136
- Nathaniel Mackey: Steep Incumbencies 142
- Sun Ra: From the Windy City to the Omniverse-Chicago Life as a Street Priest of D.I.Y. Jazz 153
- Fred Anderson: The House That Fred Built 162
- Three. Ululations And Other Vocal Stimulants
- Sun Ra: Queer Voice 169
- Jaap Blonk: Uncommon Tongue 170
- PJ Harvey: Mother's Tongue 179
- Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound (coauthored with Terri Kapsalis) 182
- Liz Phair and Lou Barlow: On Music, Sex, TV, and Beyond 194
- Liz Phair and Kim Gordon: Exile in Galville? 205
- Koko Taylor: The Blue Queen Cooks 212
- Brion Gysin and Steve Lacy: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permuted 217
- Four. The Horn Section
- Ornette Coleman: Doing Is Believing 233
- Roscoe Mitchell: Citizen of Sound 244
- Fred Anderson and Von Freeman: Tenacity 250
- George Lewis: Interactive Imagination 258
- Mats Gustafsson: MG at Half-C 264
- Ken Vandermark: Six Dispatches from the Memory Bank 270
- Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee: Mutual Admiration Society 278
- Peter Broetzmann and Evan Parker: Bring Something to the Table 285
- Five. Track Marks
- Oncology of the Record Album 297
- Discaholic or Vinyl Freak? Mats Gustafsson Interrogates John Corbett 301
- Twenty-Seven Enthusiasms: A Spontaneous Listening Session 308
- A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack beyond the Screen 313
- R. L. Burnside and Jon Spencer: Fattening Frogs for Snake Drive 322
- Before and After Punk: The Comp as Teaching Tool 331
- Raymond Scott: Cradle of Electronica 336
- Six. Melodic Line and Tone Color
- Peter Broetzmann: Graphic Equalizer 343
- Albert Oehlen: Bionic Painting 347
- Albert Oehlen: Mangy-A Conversation and a Playlist 352
- Christopher Wool: Impropositions-Improvisation, Dub Painting 359
- Christopher Wool: Into the Woods-Six Meditations on the Interdisciplinary 366
- Sun Ra: An Afro-Space-Jazz Imaginary-The Printed Record of El Saturn 371
- Seven. The Texture Of Refusal
- Helmut Lachenmann: Hellhoerig, or the Intricacies of Perceptiveness 379
- Guillermo Gregorio: Madi Music 387
- Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others 391
- Afterword: A Concise History of Music 417
- Grooving On: Selected Listening 423
- Credits 443
- Index 447