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