Some suggested readings (an evolving list):

Braxton, Anthony. Tri-axium writings. ([S.l.] : Synthesis Music, 1985)

Hartley, George. Textual Politics and the Language Poets (Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1989)

Heble, Ajay, and Daniel Fischlin, ed. The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue (Middletown: Wesleyan U. Press, 2004)
See chapters by Oliveros, Reason, Stanyek, Lewis, Tucker, Mackey, in particular.

Mackey, Nathaniel. Eroding Witness: Poems by Nathaniel Mackey (Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1985)

Mackey, Nathaniel.Discrepant Engagement (Cambridge: CUP, 1993)

Watten, Barrett. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Middletown: Wesleyan U. Press, 2003)

Some text excerpts will be on reserve in the Music Department, and all recordings will be available at the Avery Fisher listening Center.
If you do not have access to either of these places, and cannot locate the items elsewhere, please contact me or Lawren Young though the contact information listed. -eh



Discography: !incomplete!; evolving, until feb. 28 or so.

Braxton, Anthony. "For alto." Bobst XCD 21133
Lewis, George, and Luc Houtkamp. "718" XCD 15985
Curran, Alvin. "Spare Ribs and Short Circuits" XCD 24496
Curran, Alvin."Inner Cities" [d. vandewalle] XCD 38865, vol. 1-4
Reason, Dana. "Primal Identity" XCD 12971
Masaoka, Miya. "Compositions, Improvisations" XCD 10069
Cage, John. "Etudes Australes" XCD 2796
Applebaum, Mark. "Intellectual Property" XCD 31452
Uitti, F. M., and Elliot Sharp. "Improvisations" XCD 14690



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