Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics

In this volume editor John Rahn has assembled a fascinating collection of essays that focus on creating performing and thinking about music in today''s world. The essays drawn from the journal Perspectives of New Music reflect a wide variety of artistic viewpoints and the latest critical perspectives - all from the creative point of view. Featured writers include composers Pierre Boulez John Cage Iannis Xenakis Milton Babbitt Benjamin Boretz and J. K. Randall as well as literary scholars Douglas Collins and Arthur Nestrovski anthropologist Eric Gans philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Delmore Schwartz.