Bibliography for:
The American Avant Garde
 (MUSIC 145 and 220)
(note: * indicates that the book is available in the UCI library. # indicates that the book is being held on the instructor’s reserve shelf at the Media Center of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.)
Albright, Daniel: Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Other
Arts. University of Chicago Press, 2000. *
Battcock, Gregory, ed. Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music.
E.P. Dutton, 1981. * #
Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945, 2d ed. Oxford
University Press, 1987. *
Cage, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Wesleyan University Press, 1961. * #
----------. A Year from Monday: New Writings and Lectures. Wesleyan University Press,
1967. *
----------. Composition in Retrospect. Exact Change, 1993. *
----------. M: Writings 1967-1972. Wesleyan University Press, 1973. *
----------. X: Writings 1979-1982. Wesleyan University Press, 1983. *
----------. Themes and Variations, 2d ed. Exact Change, 1993. *
Cope, David. New Directions in Music, 3d ed. William C. Brown, 1981. *
Cowell, Henry. New Musical Resources. Cambridge University Press, 1996. *
Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass,
Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. DaCapo Press, 1999. *
Feldman, Morton. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton
Feldman. Exact Change, 2000. *
Gagne, Cole, and Tracy Caras. Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers.
Scarecrow Press, 1982. *
Garland, Peter. Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture, 1973-80. Soundings
Press, 1982. *
Gena, Peter, and Jonathan Brent, eds. A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His 70th
Birthday. Peters, 1982.
Gendron, Bernard. Between Montmarte and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the
Avant-Garde. University of Chicago Press, 2002. *
Gilmore, Bob. Harry Partch: A Biography. Yale University Press, 1998. *
Glass, Philip. Music by Philip Glass. Harper & Row, 1987. *
Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music: The Avant Garde Since 1945. George Brazziler, 1981. *
----------. Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945. Oxford University Press,
1996.
Holmes, Thomas. Electronic and Experimental Music, 2d ed. Routledge, 2002. * #
Schwartz, Charles. “George Gershwin,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
London: Macmillan, 1980. *
Hopkin, Bart. Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments.
Ellipsis Arts, 1996.
Kostelanetz, Richard. Conversing with Cage. Limelight Editions, 1988. *
----------. On Innovative Musicians. Limelight Editions, 1989.
----------, ed. Writings about John Cage. University of Michigan Press, 1993. *
----------, ed. John Cage: Writer: Previously Uncollected Pieces. Limelight Editions,
1993.
----------, ed. Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism. Schirmer, 1997. *
Lucier, Alvin, and Douglas Simon. Chambers.Wesleyan University Press, 1980.
Martin, Bill. Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork. Open Court
Publishing Company, 2002. *
Mertens, Wim. American Minimal Music. Kahn & Averill, 1983. * #
Nicholls, David. American Experimental Music, 1890-1940. Cambridge University Press,
1991. *
----------, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge University Press,
2002. * #
Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, 2d ed. Cambridge University
Press, 1999. * #
Partch: Harry. Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its
Fulfillments, 2d ed. DaCapo Press, 1979. *
----------. Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos, reprint.
University of Illinois Press, 2000. *
Patterson, David. John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950. Routledge,
2000. *
Perloff, Marjorie. John Cage: Composed in America. University of Chicago Press, 1994. *
Pritchett, James. The Music of John Cage. Cambridge University Press, 1993. *
Reich, Steve. Writings about Music. Universal Edition, 1974. *
----------. Writings on Music, 1975-2000. Oxford University Press, 2002. *
Revill, David. The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life. Little, Brown & Co. 1992.  *
Rockwell, John. All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century. Knopf,
1983.  * #
Schaefer, John. New Sounds: A Listener’s Guide to New Music. Harper & Row, 1987. *
Schafer, R. Murray. The New Soundscape. Associated Music Publishers, 1969.
----------. The Tuning of the World, Knopf, 1977. *
Schwarz, K. Robert. Minimalists (20th-Century Composers). Phaidon, 1996.
Shultis, Christopher. Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American
Experimental Tradition. Northestern University Press, 1998. *
Strickland, Edward. Minimalism: Origins. Indiana University Press, 2000. *
Williams, Michael D. Source: Music of the Avant Garde. Music Library Association,
1978. *