Research Catalog

Title

Meredith Monk / edited by Deborah Jowitt.

Publication

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Jowitt, Deborah.

Description

x, 207 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Meredith Monk has enthralled audiences since the early 1960s. Her visionary work as performer, composer, choreographer, filmmaker, singer, and dancer has helped to define the American avant garde and earned numerous honors and awards - including a MacArthur fellowship in 1995. In Meredith Monk, editor Deborah Jowitt creates an absorbing portrait of an artist whose career spans three decades of American avant-garde performance.
• Bringing together writings by Monk, herself, along with significant reviews, essays, interviews, and photographs of Monk's unique performance events, the book establishes her as one of the great treasures of contemporary American culture.

Series Statement

PAJ books. Art and performance monographs ; 1

Uniform Title

PAJ books. Art + performance ; 1.

Subject

• Monk, Meredith > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and discography (p. 207).

Contents

• Introduction / Deborah Jowitt -- "Missions Statement" (1983, rev. 1996) / Meredith Monk -- Process Notes on Portable (1966) / Meredith Monk -- "Monk's Mix" (1968) / John Perreault -- "Elephant, Dinosaur, Whale, and Monk" (1969) / Sali Ann Kriegsman -- Journal Entry (1970) / Meredith Monk -- Journal Entry (1970) / Meredith Monk -- "Fantasies (Nearly Nude) in the Arboretum" (1970) / Laura Shapiro -- "Virgin Vessel" (1971) / Marcia B. Siegel -- Notes for Vessel, Part Three (1971) / Meredith Monk -- "A Metamorphic Theater" (1973) / Mark Berger -- "Personal Mythologies: Meredith Monk's Education of the Girlchild" (1995) / Marianne Goldberg -- "Arrivals and Departures" (1995) / Tobi Tobias -- "Notes on the Voice" (1976) / Meredith Monk -- "A Report on Meredith's Notch" (1972) / Arthur Sainer -- "Hit by a Flying Solo" (1973) / Tom Johnson -- Dreams from Meredith Monk's Notebooks (1970-1975) / Meredith Monk --
• "Against Alienation: A Postlinear Theater Struggles to Connect" (1976) / Signe Hammer -- "Digging for Quarry" (1985) / Meredith Monk -- "Meredith Monk: Invocation/Evocation - A Dialogue with Liza Bear" (1976) -- "Meredith Monk: Voyage to the Limits of the Voice" (1979) / Guy Scarpetta -- "Some Observations on Meredith Monk's Recent Ruins" (1980) / Kenneth Bernard -- "Exhibit A and Possibly B" (1981-1982) / Marcia B. Siegel -- "Notes: Meredith Monk" (1982) / David Sterritt -- Dreams from Meredith Monk's Notebooks (1978-1984) / Meredith Monk -- "Meredith Monk and the Discreet Charm of the Avant-Garde" (1984) / Laura Shapiro -- "Meredith Monk's Gift of Vision" (1984) / Deborah Jowitt -- Excerpts from Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address (1985) / Meredith Monk -- "Review of Acts from Under and Above" (1986) / Gregory Sandow -- "Voices/Visions: An Interview with Meredith Monk" (1988) / Edward Strickland -- "About Book of Days" (1988) / Meredith Monk and Joan Knight --
• "Ancient Lullabies" (1988) / Kyle Gann -- From Liner Notes for Facing North Album (1992) / Meredith Monk -- "Materials Transformed" (1990) / Deborah Jowitt -- Process Notes on Atlas (1989) / Meredith Monk -- "Meredith Monk's Atlas of Sound: New Opera and the American Performance Tradition" (1992) / Bonnie Marranca -- "Mellow Meredith" (1995) / Philippe Verriele -- From "Ages of the Avant-Garde" (1994) / Meredith Monk -- From "Interview with Meredith Monk" (1984) / Stephanie Skura.

ISBN

• 080185539X (alk. paper)
• 0801855403 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97006597

OCLC

• 36581971
• ocm36581971
• SCSB-14467277

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries