Eight Lectures on Experimental Music / edited by Alvin Lucier.

Table of Contents: “…James Tenney -- Christian Wolff -- Robert Ashley -- Maryanne Amacher -- La Monte Young -- Steve Reich -- Meredith Monk -- Philip Glass.…”
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Eight lectures on experimental music / edited by Alvin Lucier.

Table of Contents: “…James Tenney -- Christian Wolff -- Robert Ashley -- Maryanne Amacher -- La Monte Young -- Steve Reich -- Meredith Monk -- Philip Glass.…”
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Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology / edited by Paul Hoover.

Table of Contents: “…59th Light Poem: for La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela -- 6 November 1982 --…”

The names of minimalism : authorship, art music, and historiography in dispute / Patrick Nickleson. by Nickleson, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "La Monte Young Does Not Understand 'His' Work" -- One Policing Process: Music as a Gradual Process and Pendulum Music -- Two Writing Minimalism: The Theatre of Eternal Music and the Historiography of Drones -- Three The Lessons of Minimalism: The Big Four and the Pedagogic Myth -- Four Indistinct Minimalisms: Punk, No Wave, and the Death of Minimalism -- Conclusion: The Names of Minimalism…”
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Talking music : conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers / William Duckworth. by Duckworth, William

Soft is fast : Simone Forti in the 1960s and after / Meredith Morse. by Morse, Meredith

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 The 1960S; 1 The Natural and the Neutral: Simone Forti, Ann Halprin, and Margaret H'Doubler; 2 Simone Forti in New York: John Cage and Robert Whitman; 3 Scale: Simone Forti's Text Works in An Anthology of Chance Operations; 4 The Dance Constructions, La Monte Young's Performance, and Slow Time; 5 The Problem of the Personal; Part 2 The 1960s and After; 6 Huddle: Inhabitation and Sociality; 7 Disoriented Perception: Simone Forti in the 1970s and Process Art; 8 News Animations and Improvisations: Movement-Feeling-Form.…”
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Gallery sound / Caleb Kelly. by Kelly, Caleb, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; a Listening to visual art; b A sound context; Chapter 1 The empty-sounding gallery; a Silence and the void; b Silence; c Sense of sensing: Robert Irwin and James Turrell; d Unified sensory situation: Michael Asher; e Rendered acoustical: Bruce Nauman; f Eternal music: La Monte Young; g Echoing resonance: Alvin Lucier; Chapter 2 Noises in the gallery; a The new loud art museum; b Intervention and interference: Marco Fusinato; c Condoned noise; d Social sounds; e Walking and listening; Chapter 3 Musical galleries.…”
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In the blink of an ear : toward a non-cochlear sonic art / by Seth Kim-Cohen. by Kim-Cohen, Seth

Table of Contents: “…At, out, about -- In one ear, out the other : Clement Greenberg, Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, Muddy Waters -- Be more specific : Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Robert Morris -- The perception of primacy : Annette Michelson, Robert Morris, Charles Sanders Peirce, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Derrida -- Ohrenblick : Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Jacques Attali, Christina Kubisch -- Sound-in-itself : Francisco López, Stephen Vitiello, Jacob Kirkegaard, La Monte Young, James Snead, Sam Phillips -- Unhearing Cage : Rosalind Krauss, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, George Brecht -- Sound-out-of-itself : Luc Ferrari, Alvin Lucier, Bob Dylan -- A dot on a line : Bruce Nauman, VALIE EXPORT, Jean-François Lyotard, Douglas Kahn, Janet Cardiff, Jarrod Fowler, Marina Rosenfeld, Nicolas Bourriaud -- Conclusion. …”
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Cage/Cunningham : a film / by Elliot Caplan ; [produced by] Cunningham Dance Foundation, in association with La SEPT. by Cage, John

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Music 109 : notes on experimental music / Alvin Lucier ; foreword by Robert Ashley. by Lucier, Alvin

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Music and modernism, c. 1849-1950 / edited by Charlotte de Mille.

Table of Contents: “…Rubin -- Invoking the language of the musical vague in the art and critical reception of Henri Fantin-Latour / Corrinne Chong -- Sacred performance : two instances of musical architecture in Cambridge / Ayla Lepine -- "Turning the earth above a buried memory" : dismembering and remembering Kandinsky / Charlotte de Mille -- Visual music in film, 1921-1924 : Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman / Malcolm Cook -- "It don't mean a thing -- " : jazz, modernism, and murals in New Deal New York / Jody Patterson -- Zen and the art of la Monte Young / Melissa Warak -- Formalising the stochastic cloud : Xenakis and his machine for drawing music / Olga Touloumi.…”
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Cage Cunningham / Cunningham Dance Foundation presents ; in association with La Sept ; a film by Elliot Caplan ; directed by Elliot Caplan ; choreography, Merce Cunningham ; music, John Cage ; writer, David Vaughan ; produced by Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. by Cage, John

The arithmetic of listening : tuning theory and history for the impractical musician / Kyle Gann. by Gann, Kyle

Table of Contents: “…The Seven Limit and Johnston NotationInterlude F: La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano; Interlude G: Ben Johnston's String Quartet No. 4; 10. …”
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"Maximum clarity" and other writings on music / Ben Johnston ; edited by Bob Gilmore. by Johnston, Ben

Table of Contents: “…John Cage -- The Corporealism of Harry Partch -- Harry Partch/John Cage -- Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music -- Beyond Harry Partch -- Regarding La Monte Young…”
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Music, art and performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl : the musicalizaton of art / edited by Diane V. Silverthorne.

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Performance : live art since the 60s / RoseLee Goldberg. by Goldberg, RoseLee

Table of Contents: “…Jones and Arnie Zane, Kim Jones, Isaac Julien, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, John Kelly, Mary Kelly, Kipper Kids, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Paul Koek, Beryl Korot, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, La Fura dels Baus, John Latham, Michel Laub, Jan Lauwers, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Ralph Lemon, Robert Lepage, Robert Longo, Charles Ludlam, Mabou Mines, Paul McCarthy, Robbie McCauley, George Maciunas, Bruce McLean, Alastair MacLennan, Steve McQueen, Ann Magnuson, John Malpede, Piero Manzoni, Christian Marclay, Christoph Marthaler, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Tim Miller, Meredith Monk, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman, Mariko Mori, Yasumara Morimura, Kevin Mortensen, Otto Mühl, Bruce Nauman, Kestutis Nakas, Neuer Tanz, Hermann Nitsch, Tere O'Connor, Lorraine O'Grady, Claes Oldenburg, Pat Oleszko, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Orlan, Jill Orr, Lucy Orta, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Stephen Petronio, Adrian Piper, Alain Platel/Arne Sierens, Sally Potter, Stefan Pucher, Tamar Raban, Arnulf Rainer, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Klaus Rinke, Rock Steady Crew, Nigel Rolfe, Ulrike Rosenbach, Rachel Rosenthal, David Rousseve, Tomáš Ruller, Niki de Saint Phalle, Richard Schechner, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Roman Signer, Jack Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Station House Opera, Stelarc, Gary Stevens, André Stitt, Elizabeth Streb, Meg Stuart, Min Tanaka, Sam Taylor-Wood, Saburo Teshigawara, Rirkrit Tiravinija, Ting Theatre of Mistakes, Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyana), Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen), Urban Bushwomen, Ben Vautier, The Velvet Underground, Wolf Vostell, Claude Wampler, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, Faith Wilding, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Robert Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, The Wooster Group, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela.…”

Audio culture : readings in modern music / edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; Thankless attempts at a definition of minimalism / Kyle Gann ; Basic concepts of minimal music / Wim Mertens ; Musical as a gradual process / Steve Reich ; Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz / La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela ; LYssophobia : on Four violines / Tony Conrad ; Rap, minimalism and structures in time in late twentieth-century culture / Susan McClary ; Draw a straight line and follow it : minimalism in contemporary electronic dance music / Philip Sherburne -- VIII. …”