SELECTED TEXTS

Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945. New York: Oxford UP, 1975.

Cage, John and Joan Retallack. Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1996.

Davies, Hugh. "A History of Sampling." Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music Technology 1.1 (April 1996): 3-11. [A short summary can be found here]

Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York: Schirmer, 1995.

Eno, Brian. A Year With Swollen Appendices. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996.

Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books, 1998.

Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond. New York : Cambridge UP, 1999.

Page, Tim. "Music in Twelve Parts." Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz and Robert Flemming. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.

Prendergast, Mark and Brian Eno. The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age. New York: Bloomsbury and St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Rose, Tricia. "Give Me a (Break) Beat!: Sampling and Repetition in Rap Production." Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Ed. Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey. Seattle: Bay Press, 1994.

Theberge, Paul. Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology (Music/Culture). Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1997.

Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. [A short summary can be found here]