John Zorn

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John Zorn is one of the most prolific and active Americancomposers/performers working today. He has been a fixture of New York's "DowntownScene" since the mid-70s as a tireless proponent of avant-garde and experimentalmusic. Despite the acclaim and respect he has achieved in America and abroad, verylittle attention has been paid to Zorn by musicologists or music theorists. AuthorJohn Brackett suggests that the reason for the relative paucity of writing on Zorn'smusic and musical thought has to do with the difficulties and challenges theypresent both for listeners and scholars. Zorn's musical language -- an amalgam ofseemingly incongruous techniques, sounds, styles, and genres -- creates complex andsometimes confusing listening experiences that are difficult to categorize in termsof overarching thematic or narrative design. Brackett offers a number ofperspectives for understanding Zorn's music and musical practices, while challengingcertain assumptions that limit the ways in which contemporary music is typicallyaddressed.