Research Catalog

Title

Forces in motion : the music and thoughts of Anthony Braxton / Graham Lock ; photographs by Nick White ; foreword by Anthony Braxton.

Author

Lock, Graham, 1948-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, ©1988.

Supplementary Content

Contributor biographical information

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Details

Description

xvi, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Da Capo paperback

Uniform Title

Da Capo paperback.

Subjects

• Jazz musicians
• Composers
• Braxton, Anthony
• Biography
• United States
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography
• Composers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biography.

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: London : Quartet Books, 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-400) and index.

Contents

Astro Black Mythology -- Magic was My Name -- Doors of the Cosmos -- House of Light -- 'I Like All the Sounds that Upset People'/Goodbye to America/Compulsory Tuxedos/Keeping the Creators Down/'Beauty is Necessary for Survival' -- Astro Black -- Road -- Tuesday 12, London -- Wednesday 13, London -- Metaroad -- Sweet Home Chicago -- Factories of Death -- Biography 1, 1945-69 -- Black and Poor in America/Frankie Lymon, James Brown, Live at the Regal/Philosophy -- Piano Piece 1/Racism in the Army -- Korea/The AACM -- Multi-instrumentalism/Sound Tools, Live Dump Truck, Environment Strolls/For Alto -- A Syntax for Solo Saxophone/Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Leo Smith/Dying in Chicago -- Road -- Thursday 14, Newcastle -- Metaroad -- Foreground Music 1 -- Paul Desmond -- 'Only the Essence Remained'/The Tightrope of 'It' -- Masters/Charlie Parker -- Talking of the Upper Partials/The Post-Parker Continuum/'Black Exotica' -- The Concept of African Inferiority/Eric Dolphy -- Bebop to Extremes/Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes, Jimmy Giuffre/Ornette Coleman -- Reaffirming the African Composer -- Road -- Friday 15, Manchester -- Metaroad -- Biography 2, 1969-74 -- 'People were Throwing Rocks at Us'/Chess Hustler -- A Lost Generation/Living with Ornette/Circle -- Scientology/Titles -- A Crack in the Universe/Chess -- 'a World of Forces'/'Swing' -- The Little Box of 'Jazz'/African Intellectual Dynamics -- The Black Spaniard of Bonn/Stuck in LA, Damned to Hell in Downbeat, Paris/IRCAM: 'Business as Usual' -- Road -- Saturday 16, Manchester -- Metaroad -- Foreground Music 2 -- The Unsung Mastery of Warne Marsh -- Gravillic Contours/Capablanca's Line/The European Mystic Lineage/John Coltrane -- A New Level of Sound Wonder -- 'Sit in with God!'/Attacked with an Umbrella -- Spiritual Power/Cecil Taylor, a Genius Genius/The Tenth Floor -- 'Invisible Things' -- Road -- Sunday 17, Birmingham -- Quartet -- Mark Dresser, Bass -- Road -- Monday 18, Liverpool -- Metaroad -- Biography 3, 1974-85 -- The European Improvisers/The Arista Period -- 'Under the Rug'/Notated Music -- 'You Take what You Can Get'/Record Companies -- 'Aarrgghh!!!'/Four Billion Projects/In the Tradition, the Inflexible Group, Valium/Taking the Lumps/A Fortunate Struggle/'Keep Away from Musicians'/The Heat of Logs -- In the Basement -- Road -- Tuesday 19, Sheffield -- Metaroad -- Foreground Music 3 -- 'The History of Music Evolution is not the History of Nice Guys'/'I See My Music as a Three-dimensional Painting'/'Of Course I'm Crazy' -- Go to the Ancients/Sun Ra -- The World of Abstract Consciousness/Why Music is Serious -- On and off the Planet -- Road -- Wednesday 20, Leicester -- Metaroad -- Sound Logic, Sound Magic 1: Musical Evolution -- Restructuralism, Stylism, Traditionalism/Balancing the Trivibrational Dynamics/'I've Always Played the Blues'/Conceptual Grafting/Coding, Co-ordinate and Schematic Musics/Ritual & Ceremonial Musics/'From the Abstract to the Concrete'/Structural Criteria/Territories -- The Vibrational Liquid of Improvisation -- Road -- Thursday 21, Bristol -- Quartet -- Marilyn Crispell, Piano -- Road -- Friday 22, Southampton -- Metaroad -- Sound Logic, Sound Magic 2: Pulse Tracks, Collage Forms, Multi-orchestralism -- 23G, 'Sound Attacks', Vertical and Horizontal Formings/116, a Synchronist Pulse Track Structure/Accordion Sound Space -- Diamond Sound Space/The Solar System of Pulse Tracks -- Multiple Logic Musics/Opposition and Collage Forms -- Vibrational Clash/Sound Mass Particles -- Environments/82: 'Like a City' -- Planet Level Musics/A Music to Heal Deserts/Falling Behind Schedule/Higher Thoughts -- A Music to Play God -- Road -- Saturday 23, Leeds -- Metaroad -- Sound Logic, Sound Magic 3: Titles, Colours, Shapes -- Let 'A' Equal Curve Line/Encoding -- 'The Title Will Do Its Own Job'/A Reality of Fundamentals/'Think a Thought that Will Affect the Planet'/Opus Numbers/The Emotional Zone of Red/The Lost Sign of the Zodiac -- Negative Energies/The Difference Between Talk and Talk -- Road -- Sunday 24, Leeds -- Metaroad -- Sound Logic, Sound Magic 4: the Metaphysics of Structure -- Affinity Insight -- What Structure is/Bopbe/Inventing the Wheel 500 Times/Going to See the Chicken Fight/The Theory of the Isolated Pawn -- Saved by Unlogic!/Develop into a Rock/Where Thinking is a Dirty Word/Emotional Zones -- 'I Never Meant Become an Android'/Freedom -- 'Now I Can Kill You'/Transformation and Ritual/Endgame -- Road -- Monday 25, Huddersfield -- Quartet -- Gerry Hemingway, Percussion -- Road -- 1983, Belgrade/Venice -- Metaroad -- Coda -- The Quartet/George Lewis -- Mr Rzewski & Mr Teitelbaum/The Political Option Dynamics for Women/'Masters' -- The Sexist Bias of Language/African-American Intellectuals -- The Left/'Put the Mystics in Charge'/How to Live?/Everything is a Vibration -- Forces at Work!/Multidimensional Language -- Choo Choo Trains -- Road -- Tuesday 26, Coventry -- Wednesday 27, London -- Thursday 28, London -- Celestial Harmonies: a Note on Music, Mysticism, Ancient Egypt and World Culture -- 'In the Light of the Greater Forces': a Note on Tri-axium Writings -- Lecture Notes -- Language Music -- Repetition and Structural Generation -- Spatial Distance and Alternative Structural Models.

Call Number

JND 19-81

ISBN

• 0306803429
• 9780306803420

LCCN

88033474

OCLC

19575508

Author

Lock, Graham, 1948-

Title

Forces in motion : the music and thoughts of Anthony Braxton / Graham Lock ; photographs by Nick White ; foreword by Anthony Braxton.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, ©1988.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Da Capo paperback

Da Capo paperback.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-400) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Research Call Number

JND 19-81