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[Julian Knowles <j.knowles@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Following on from the discussions of 'neo-modernism' (?!) and new 
electronic music.... These essays make good book ends.

Babbitt, M."Who Cares if You Listen?" in Schwartz and Childs (eds.), 
Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, Holt, Rinehart and 
Winston, New York/Chicago, 1967.pp. 243-250.

and the reply from Susan McClary 'Terminal Prestige: The Case of 
Avant-Garde Music Composition',			Cultural Critique, 
Spring 1989, pp.57-81

Some others

Hartwell, R 'Postmodernism and art music' in The last post: Music 
after modernism, Manchester University Press, Manchester/New York, 
1993.

in the same book

Theberge, P 'Random Access: music, technology, postmodernism' in The 
last post: Music after modernism, Manchester University Press, 
Manchester/New York, 1993.

Hodgkinson, T. 'Interview with Pierre Shaeffer' (plus introduction), 
Re Records Quarterly, Volume 2, No.1, pp.4-10.   - This is a wildly 
provocative interview where Schaeffer basically consigns his life's 
work to the trash... Good for stimulating discussion on music beyond 
the 'pitch/duration' paradigm (see below)

Wishart, T. 'What is Sonic Art?', and 'Beyond the Pitch/Duration 
Paradigm' in On			Sonic Art, Imagineering Press, York, 
1985

Frith, S.	'Towards an aesthetic of popular music' in Leppert, 
Richard and McClary, Music and Society: The politics of composition, 
performance and reception, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 
1987, pp.133-149.

If participants have access to a good university library then I guess 
you could jump about a lot within identified themes, otherwise a 
single book has advantages for people who can't access these 
resources, as they can just buy one book and participate.

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