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For more than five decades, BB King has been the consummate Blues
performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals and
repertoire of songs have taken him from Mississippi to worldwide
renown. Published to coincide with his 80th birthday, this
extensively revised edition includes 18 interviews. In this
comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews and reviews
about BB King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he
made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis; trace his early tours
and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and
finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the
blues style.
This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living
as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to
his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world,
including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical
writings and commentary on his own works.
Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the
Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard
Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition.
Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz
provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else, no
less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and
individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent,
he ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations
of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali, Johan Cruyff, and the
Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and
his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Samuel Johnson and Nicolas
Slonimsky (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be enjoyed not only in bits and chunks, but
continuously as one of the dozen books someone would take if they
planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living
as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to
his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world,
including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical
writings and commentary on his own works.
The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of
numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are
abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings
challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting liberation, and
because of this they have not only endured but proven highly
influential. The Gertrude Stein Reader collects fifty one of
Stein's poems, stories, portraits, and plays, along with excerpts
from Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories;
A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow, A Love Story; Geography
and Plays; An Acquaintance with a Description; and Useful
Knowledge. The extensive introduction provides a brief biography
and explains the impact her work had on subsequent writers and
artists.
For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of
information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts
historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third
edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians,
Mexicans, and resident immigrants. Typically, he provides
intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than
online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon
what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges
widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of
artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem
Globetrotters, and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his
native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Nicolas
Slonimsky (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be treasured not only in bits and chunks, but
continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if they
planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
Contents: Preface Epigraphs 1. Autobiography 2. Precursors 3. His Own Music (to 1970) 4. His Own Music (after 1970) 5. His Performances 6. His Writings 7. Radio and Audiotape 8. Visual Arts 9. Dance 10. Successors 11. Esthetics 12. Pedagogy 13. Social Philosophy 14. Coda Index
Aaron Copland is one of America's best-known composers and writers on twentieth century music. This volume brings together for the first time the best of his published essays on music, with previously unpublished material from his diaries, letters, and writings to present a complete picture of Copland as a cultural critic.
For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of
information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts
historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third
edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere
else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and
individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent,
Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including
appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the
Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and
his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Samuel
Johnson (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be enjoyed, not only in bits and chunks but
continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if he or
she planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists
exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where
they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of
Houston Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by
word-of-mouth recommendations, the area soon grew to become a
world-class center for artistic creation indeed, the largest urban
artists' colony ever in America, let alone the world.
Richard Kostelanetz's Artists' SoHo not only examines why the
artists came and how they accomplished what they did but also
delves into the lives and works of some of the most creative
personalities who lived there during that period, including Nam
June Paik, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Hannah
Wilke, George Macuinas, and Alan Suicide. Gallerists followed the
artists in fashioning themselves, their homes, their buildings, and
even their streets into transiently prominent exhibition and
performance spaces.
SoHo pioneer Richard Kostelanetz's extensively researched intimate
history is framed within a personal memoir that unearths myriad
perspectives: social and cultural history, the changing rules for
residency and ownership, the ethos of the community, the physical
layouts of the lofts, the types of art produced, venues that opened
and closed, the daily rhythm, and the gradual invasion of "new
people." Artists' SoHo also explores how and why this fertile
bohemia couldn't last forever. As wealthier people paid higher
prices, galleries left, younger artists settled elsewhere, and the
neighborhood became a "SoHo Mall" of trendy stores and restaurants.
Compelling and often humorous, Artists' SoHo provides an analysis
of a remarkable neighborhood that transformed the art and culture
of New York City over the past five decades.
Visual Poetry. Concrete Poetry. Concrete Fiction. WORDWORkS
collects from Richard Kostelanetz's vast and varied experiments in
concrete and visual writing. Covering his early typographic
compositions, the Duets, Trios and Choruses series, his
surprisingly readable concrete number sequences, as well as word
pieces composed for video and holography, each section is prefaced
by a short illuminating statement concerning the process involved
and the cultural lessons behind it.
For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of
information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts
historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third
edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians,
Mexicans, and resident immigrants. Typically, he provides
intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than
online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon
what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges
widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of
artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem
Globetrotters, and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his
native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Nicolas
Slonimsky (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be treasured not only in bits and chunks, but
continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if they
planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of
information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts
historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third
edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere
else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and
individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent,
Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including
appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the
Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and
his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Samuel
Johnson (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be enjoyed, not only in bits and chunks but
continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if he or
she planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the
Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard
Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition.
Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz
provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else, no
less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and
individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent,
he ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations
of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali, Johan Cruyff, and the
Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and
his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky
high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Samuel Johnson and Nicolas
Slonimsky (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a
"reference book" to be enjoyed not only in bits and chunks, but
continuously as one of the dozen books someone would take if they
planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and
typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But
his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and
fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically
experimental. To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer
who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and
never to have: only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings
is to not read Cummings.
First Person Intense is a collection of first-person writing in a
variety of styles - although "style" may be the wrong word for the
integrity of the writing. First person writing means that someone
is speaking directly to you, not crafting a story for your
entertainment. And that's the power of first-person "intense," a
face-out manner of writing that abandons much of the traditional
structure of fiction (the arc of the narrative, omniscient
viewpoint, dialogue, character development, denouement, beginning,
middle, and end) and nonfiction (which often seems to be written by
nobody or a committee, carefully refraining from bias or personal
opinion). This anthology was originally published in 1978, and was
popular with creative writing classes as well as the general
market, as a study in writing with honesty, authentic voices
speaking without the mask of characterization. This second printing
retains most of the original pieces, including a Vietnam vet's
powerful stories, a voyage across America in search of meaning, a
prison letter, an excerpt from an as yet unpublished Charles
Bukowski novel (by permission of the publisher), the admission by
Fielding Dawson of first ambitions to be a writer (a young man
wishing to be complicated). A few additions include a
schizophrenic, a Peace Corps teacher, a story from junior high.
None of these are perfect - perfection is not sought in real
first-person writing - but all give plenty of taste of personality,
vulnerability, openness. If you like, you can call this a "school
of writing." First Person Intense was originally assigned an ISBN
number by Mudborn Press. After the dissolution of that partnership
in 1981, one of the partners, Sasha Newborn, established a new
publishing operation, Bandanna Books. Although the original ISBN
number is retained for the reprint of FPI, this book is now
available only from Bandanna Books. A publication akin in spirit to
FPI is Berlin (www.createspace.com/4329110), a bilingual anthology,
guest edited by Mitch Cohen, who lived in the divided city of
Berlin in the 1970s and 80s, gathering stories and poems from East
Berlin and West Berlin. An inside look at a place of high art and
high tension. A new chapter in publishing direct works has opened
with TimeWell, an online litmag that mixes up contemporaries with
classics. Subscribe at www.timewellsp.net, or submit stories or
poems.
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Poetry. Having already established his poetry among the most
inventive ever, the distinguished man of avant-garde letters
Richard Kostelanetz realizes further radically formal steps in
THREE POEMS. Each is a sequence of one-word texts continuously
interleaved with the others in an unprecedented way, in sum
offering an unprecedented reading experience. The book concludes
with Kostelanetz's visual essay "Poetry I Shall Not Make." For work
of this kind he has earned individual entries in the Readers Guide
to Twentieth-Century Writers, Contemporary Poets, and
Britannica.com, among other highly selective directories."I sense
the strength of the narrative (and there are many narratives
throughout) to be elastic or plastic: how the reader molds it in
his/her/my/your mind."--John Robert Colombo
Poetry. Long concerned with poetic invention, the indisputably
avant-garde writer Richard Kostelanetz has recently been
discovering new language forms not with words but within words.
This new collection of his, RECIRCUITS, is one of several efforts
in this direction. From the great linguist Roman Jakobson he takes
this classic appreciation: "Poetry has from the earliest times
engaged in play with suffixes; but only in modern poetry, and
particularly in Xlebnikov, has this device become conscious, and as
it were legitimate." The constraint informing this collection is
that the addition or subtraction of a single letter recircuits the
semantic stream. For this book he presents complementary texts--the
first, copies of the handwritten pages he prepared for Francesco
Conz's Ezra Pound Project (Verona, Italy) depending upon the
addition of suffixes; the second, many of the same sequences
reversed to discover recircuits revealed through subtraction. These
poems cannot be translated, because they exploit possibilities
unique to English.
This work contains critical essays by Leslie Fiedler, High Kenner,
Charles Olson, Northrop Frye, and many others.
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