Notes from Arcana (2000), John Zorn, ed.
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1. The Western Classical Tradition
2. The impermanent middle ground between classical and jazz
3. Rock as "corporate folk music"
4. Cross-cultural translation among the Minimalists
5. Humans and play
6. "Extapation"
7. Ravel and the early 20th century orchestra
8. On genre boundaries
9. The state of composed music
10. Extinct popular musics
11. Jazz, classical, blues, rock
12. Improvisation vs jazz
13. More on Bourdieu's "Distinction"
14. "Radical contingency"
15. Radical contingency vs "real analysis"
16. Radical contingency and the canon
17. Aesthetic sensibility
18. Stephen Drury on "the fundamental nautre of art"
19. Rauschenberg on a painting changing your mind
20. Music, culture, and the perceptual apparatus

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