John Corbett is a music critic, record producer, and curator. He is the author of Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein, also published by Duke University Press. His writing has appeared in Downbeat, The Wire, the Chicago Reader, and numerous other publications.¿ He is the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey, an art gallery in Chicago.

Preface: Tympanum of the Other Frog  xv Acknowledgments  xix Introduction  1 One. On The Road, Into The Cul-De-Sac Joe Harriott and Bernie McGann: Flying without Ornette  15 Michael Hurley: Jocko's Lament  21 Mayo Thompson: Genre of One  33 John Stevens: Unpopular Populists  36 Peter Brötzmann Tentet: Freeways  40 Steve Lacy: Sojourner Saxophone  49 David Grubbs: Postcards from the Edge  57 Voice Crack: From Nothing to Everything  67 Two. Exigeneses Of Creative Music Milford Graves: Pulseology  71 Out of Nowhere: Deleuze, Gräwe, Cadence  79 Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Feeding Quarters to the Nonstop Mental Jukebox  85 Misha Mengelberg: No Simple Calculations for Life  93 Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink: Natural Inbuilt Contrapuncto  109 Form Follows Faction? Ethnicity and Creative Music  116 Anthony Braxton: Ism vs. Is  123 Anthony Braxton: Bildungsmusik—Thoughts on Composition 171  129 Paul Lowens: Lo Our Lo  132 Clark Coolidge: The Improvised Line  136 Nathaniel Mackey: Steep Incumbencies  142 Sun Ra: From the Windy City to the Omniverse—Chicago Life as a Street Priest of D.I.Y. Jazz  153 Fred Anderson: The House That Fred Built  162 Three. Ululations And Other Vocal Stimulants Sun Ra: Queer Voice  169 Jaap Blonk: Uncommon Tongue  170 PJ Harvey: Mother's Tongue  179 Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound (coauthored with Terri Kapsalis)  182 Liz Phair and Lou Barlow: On Music, Sex, TV, and Beyond  194 Liz Phair and Kim Gordon: Exile in Galville?  205 Koko Taylor: The Blue Queen Cooks  212 Brion Gysin and Steve Lacy: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permuted  217 Four. The Horn Section Ornette Coleman: Doing Is Believing  233 Roscoe Mitchell: Citizen of Sound  244 Fred Anderson and Von Freeman: Tenacity  250 George Lewis: Interactive Imagination  258 Mats Gustafsson: MG at Half-C  264 Ken Vandermark: Six Dispatches from the Memory Bank  270 Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee: Mutual Admiration Society  278 Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker: Bring Something to the Table  285 Five. Track Marks Oncology of the Record Album  297 Discaholic or Vinyl Freak? Mats Gustafsson Interrogates John Corbett  301 Twenty-Seven Enthusiasms: A Spontaneous Listening Session  308 A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack beyond the Screen  313 R. L. Burnside and Jon Spencer: Fattening Frogs for Snake Drive  322 Before and After Punk: The Comp as Teaching Tool  331 Raymond Scott: Cradle of Electronica  336 Six. Melodic Line and Tone Color Peter Brötzmann: Graphic Equalizer  343 Albert Oehlen: Bionic Painting  347 Albert Oehlen: Mangy—A Conversation and a Playlist  352 Christopher Wool: Impropositions—Improvisation, Dub Painting  359 Christopher Wool: Into the Woods—Six Meditations on the Interdisciplinary  366 Sun Ra: An Afro-Space-Jazz Imaginary—The Printed Record of El Saturn  371 Seven. The Texture Of Refusal Helmut Lachenmann: Hellhörig, or the Intricacies of Perceptiveness  379 Guillermo Gregorio: Madi Music  387 Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others  391 Afterword: A Concise History of Music  417 Grooving On: Selected Listening  423 Credits  443 Index  447