Windleburn, Maurice,

John Zorn's file card works : hypertextual intermediality in composition and analysis / Maurice Windleburn. - [1.]. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024. - 1 online resource. - Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music since 1950 .

The File Card Work and its Model Listener -- The Hypotexts of Sound Blocks -- Hypertextual Hermeneutics -- From Metatext to Hypertext via Uncreativity.

"This book is the first study of John Zorn's 'file card' works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010). It explains the unique creative process behind these compositions, contextualizing them in relation to the history of file cards, the 'open work' concept, cinematic listening, and uncreative aesthetics. Semiotic, hermeneutic, and ekphrastic analyses draw hypertextual links between the four file card compositions and the worlds of their respective dedicatees: author Mickey Spillane, filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, novelist William S. Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin, and psychiatrist C. G. Jung. This book will appeal not only to those interested in Zorn's music, but also to scholars of music semiotics and hermeneutics, intermedia studies, and avant-garde music"--

9781003321361 1003321364 9781003853565 1003853560 9781003853596 1003853595

10.4324/9781003321361 doi


Zorn, John, 1953- --Criticism and interpretation.


Music--History and criticism.--20th century
Music--History and criticism.--21st century
Intermediality.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory

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