In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. 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 celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae.
Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. 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. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Earmeals and Expubedience
- Part One: Dancing In Your Head - Theoretical Jam
- Brothers from Another Planet: The Space Madness of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sun Ra, and George Clinton
- Spate of Flux: On the Unofficial Return of Fluxus Impetus
- Free, Single, and Disengaged: Listening Pleasure and the Popular Music Object
- Siren Song to Banshee Wail: On the Status of the Background Vocalist
- Bleep This, Motherf*!#er: The Semiotics of Profanity in Popular Music
- Ex Uno Plura: Milford Graves, Evan Parker, and the Schizoanalysis of Musical Performance
- Postmodernism--Go, Figure: Smell, Sound, and Subliminal Suggestion
- Part Two: An Ear to the Ground: Profiles in Sound
- Hal Russell: The Fires That Burn in Hal
- Ikue Mori/Catherine Jauniaux: When the Twain Meet
- Ed Wilkerson, Jr.: One Bold Soul
- Lee Perry: Tabula Rasta--The Upsetter Starts from Scratch
- Franz Koglmann: Meister of Melancholy
- Pinetop Perkins: Boogie + Woogie
- Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra: LJCO 2 U
- George Clinton: Every Dog Has His Day
- Fred Anderson/Von Freeman: On the Radical Lounge Tip
- Sainkho Namtchylak: Madame Butterfly Knows Only Enough
- Sun Ra: Eulogy and Light
- Part Three: Music Like Dirt: Interviews and Outerviews
- John Cage: The Conversation Game
- Steve Beresford: M.O.R. and More
- Evan Parker: Saxophone Botany
- Anthony Braxton: From Planet to Planet
- Alton Abraham: Brother's Keeper
- Derek Bailey: Free Retirement Plan
- Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun Etiquette
- Han Bennink: Swing Softly and Play with a Big Stick
- The Ex: Live Free. . . Or Try
- George Clinton: The Hair of the Dog
- Nicholas Collins: Trombipulation
- Jon Rose: The Violable Tradition
- Sun Ra: Gravity and Levity
- Extending Play: A Guide to Further Listening
- Index
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