{"product_id":"microgroove-9780822358701","title":"Microgroove","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMicrogroove\u003c\/i\u003e continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music, as well as painting, design, dance, and poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Corbett has just published a terrific new anthology of his writing called \u003ci\u003eMicrogroove\u003c\/i\u003e, the long-delayed follow-up to his 1994 book \u003ci\u003eExtended Play. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eThere's a lot of great stuff in the new book—which went through multiple iterations over the years, scrapped and revisited several times—but in his introduction to a piece called 'Twenty-Seven Enthusiasms: A Spontaneous Listening Session,' Corbett expresses a major part of what makes his work so special. 'Show-and-tell was always my favorite part of school,' he writes, eventually explaining that 'you accumulate things not to own them, but to share them.' It's what he's done as a writer, a music presenter, and, in recent years, a gallerist, at Corbett vs. Dempsey.\" -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the more interesting features of \u003ci\u003eMicrogroove\u003c\/i\u003e is the inclusion of multiple pieces on some of the artists. This allows Corbett to consider them from different angles or over time, providing a fuller picture of their art in the process. That, combined with the eclectic scope of Corbett’s interests, makes of \u003ci\u003eMicrogroove\u003c\/i\u003e a rich, multifaceted survey of some of the more challenging artists of the last two decades.\" -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 complex gradations of sub-genre exist, separating the hardcore avant-garde devotee from one who thinks they’re down because they own a copy of \u003ci\u003eSpace Is the Pla\u003c\/i\u003ece. ... But first and foremost [Corbett] is a devotee of challenging and outré sounds, and his essays are most compelling when he dives headfirst into his chronicles with a fan’s enthusiasm and verve. ...These pieces beautifully balance serious musical scholarship and critical analysis with the kind of collar-grabbing, “give-this-a-listen” excitement that draws us all to music in the first place.\" -- Matt R. Lohr * JazzTimes *\u003cbr\u003e\"Corbett, like the best kind of record store crate digger, pinpoints the association between acknowledged innovators and the achievements of lesser-known figures. . .. [T]he book’s key achievement is how Corbett’s psychiatrist-like probing questions elicit the most definitive and\/or instructive statements about their art from certain musicians.\" -- Ken Waxman * MusicWorks *\u003cbr\u003e\"John Corbett is a smart guy who really, really loves music, and his intelligence and enthusiasm come through in every one of the essays and articles in this volume of his collected writings.... Anyone interested in what was happening on the cutting edge of music during the years these articles appeared needs to read this anthology of John Corbett’s writing.\" -- Ed Hazell * ARSC Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"John Corbett's singular critical voice is wildly alive in his latest book, a compendium of previous writings, sober reflections, clever visuals, idiosyncratic interviews, and post-genre insights into the thriving ecology of knowledge that is the contemporary music scene. At once this is a book that takes its place alongside other distinctive voices in the pell-mell topography of recent musical criticism, from Greg Tate and Lester Bangs to Nat Hentoff and Nate Chinen, and the work of an itinerant witness bearing testimony marked by a vast respect and love for improvised musicking and musical diversity.... \u003ci\u003eMicrogroove\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent, readable, playful testimony to the otherness of music as an allegory for creative freedom and as a generative social practice that refuses limitations.\" -- Daniel T. Fischlin * Journal of Popular Music Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Tympanum of the Other Frog  xv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One. On The Road, Into The Cul-De-Sac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joe Harriott and Bernie McGann: Flying without Ornette  15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Michael Hurley: Jocko's Lament  21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mayo Thompson: Genre of One  33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Stevens: Unpopular Populists  36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Brötzmann Tentet: Freeways  40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Steve Lacy: Sojourner Saxophone  49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David Grubbs: Postcards from the Edge  57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Voice Crack: From Nothing to Everything  67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two. Exigeneses Of Creative Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Milford Graves: Pulseology  71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Out of Nowhere: Deleuze, Gräwe, Cadence  79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Feeding Quarters to the Nonstop Mental Jukebox  85\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Misha Mengelberg: No Simple Calculations for Life  93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink: Natural Inbuilt Contrapuncto  109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Form Follows Faction? Ethnicity and Creative Music  116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Braxton: Ism vs. Is  123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Braxton: \u003ci\u003eBildungsmusik\u003c\/i\u003e—Thoughts on \u003ci\u003eComposition 171  \u003c\/i\u003e129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paul Lowens: Lo Our Lo  132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clark Coolidge: The Improvised Line  136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nathaniel Mackey: Steep Incumbencies  142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sun Ra: From the Windy City to the Omniverse—Chicago Life as a Street Priest of D.I.Y. Jazz  153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fred Anderson: The House That Fred Built  162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three. Ululations And Other Vocal Stimulants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sun Ra: Queer Voice  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jaap Blonk: Uncommon Tongue  170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PJ Harvey: Mother's Tongue  179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound (coauthored with Terri Kapsalis)  182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Liz Phair and Lou Barlow: On Music, Sex, TV, and Beyond  194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Liz Phair and Kim Gordon: Exile in Galville?  205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Koko Taylor: The Blue Queen Cooks  212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Brion Gysin and Steve Lacy: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permuted  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four. The Horn Section\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ornette Coleman: Doing Is Believing  233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roscoe Mitchell: Citizen of Sound  244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fred Anderson and Von Freeman: Tenacity  250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George Lewis: Interactive Imagination  258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mats Gustafsson: MG at Half-C  264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ken Vandermark: Six Dispatches from the Memory Bank  270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee: Mutual Admiration Society  278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker: Bring Something to the Table  285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five. Track Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oncology of the Record Album  297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Discaholic or Vinyl Freak? Mats Gustafsson Interrogates John Corbett  301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Seven Enthusiasms: A Spontaneous Listening Session  308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack beyond the Screen  313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e R. L. Burnside and Jon Spencer: Fattening Frogs for Snake Drive  322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before and After Punk: The Comp as Teaching Tool  331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Raymond Scott: Cradle of Electronica  336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Six. Melodic Line and Tone Color\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Brötzmann: Graphic Equalizer  343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Albert Oehlen: Bionic Painting  347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Albert Oehlen: Mangy—A Conversation and a Playlist  352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Wool: Impropositions—Improvisation, Dub Painting  359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Wool: Into the Woods—Six Meditations on the Interdisciplinary  366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sun Ra: An Afro-Space-Jazz Imaginary—The Printed Record of El Saturn  371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seven. The Texture Of Refusal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Helmut Lachenmann: \u003ci\u003eHellhörig\u003c\/i\u003e, or the Intricacies of Perceptiveness  379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Guillermo Gregorio: Madi Music  387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others  391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: A Concise History of Music  417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Grooving On: Selected Listening  423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Credits  443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  447","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866013118807,"sku":"9780822358701","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358701.jpg?v=1722276622","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/microgroove-9780822358701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}