Microgroove: Forays into Other Music

Contents

• 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