Although La Monte Young is one of the most important composers of
the late twentieth century, he is also one of the most elusive.
Generally recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist
movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"-he
nonetheless remains an enigma within the music world. Early in his
career Young eschewed almost completely the conventional musical
institutions of publishers, record labels, and venues, in order to
create compositions completely unfettered by commercial concerns.
At the same time, however, he exercised profound influence on such
varied figures as Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Andy Warhol, Yoko
Ono, David Lang, Velvet Underground, and entire branches of
electronica and drone music. For half a century he and his partner
and collaborator, Marian Zazeela, have worked in near-seclusion in
their Tribeca loft, creating works that explore the furthest
extremes of conceptual audacity, technical sophistication,
acoustical complexity, and overt spirituality. Because Young gives
interviews only rarely, and almost never grants access to his
extensive archives, his importance as a composer has heretofore not
been matched by a commensurate amount of scholarly scrutiny. Draw A
Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte
Young stands as the first monograph to examine Young's life and
work in detail. The book is a culmination of a decade of research,
during which the author gained rare access to the composer and his
archives. Though loosely structured upon the chronology of the
composer's career, the book takes a multi-disciplinary approach
that combines biography, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music
analysis, and illuminates such seemingly disparate aspects of
Young's work as integral serialism and indeterminacy, Mormon
esoterica and Vedic mysticism, and psychedelia and psychoacoustics.
The book is a long-awaited, in-depth look at one of America's most
fascinating musical figures.
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