Robert Ashley - BOOKS-Bibliography

By Robert Ashley

• Crash
  Ashley's libretto with Philip Makanna's photographs
  San Francisco: Ghosts
  (2016)
  
  
• Perfect Lives
  Opera libretto
  Champaigne-Urbana, IL: Dalkey Archive Press
  240 pages (2011)
  
  
• Quicksand
  Santa Fe: Burning Books
  (2011)
  
  
• Atalanta (Acts of God)
  Santa Fe: Burning Books
  207 pages (2010)
  
  
• Outside of Time
  Scores, Notes, Writings
  Cologne: Edition MusikTexte
  English-German, 656 pages (2009)
  
  
• Music with Roots in the Aether
  Interviews with and Essays about Seven American Composers
  Cologne: Edition MusikTexte
  244 pages (2002)
  
  
• Vidas Perfectas
  Una opera de Robert Ashley, traducción de Javier Sainz de Robles.
  “Oir Para Ver: Robert Ashley,” by Llorenç Barber.
  “Sinopsis,” by Robert Ashley. “Prologo del Traductor,” by Javier Sainz de Robles.
  Cordoba, Spain: Junta de Andalucia / Filmoteca de Andalucia (1992)
  
  
• Perfect Lives
  Opera libretto
  San Francisco: Burning Books/Archer Fields
  220 pages (1991)
  
  
• The guests go in to supper
  Improvement (opera libretto)
  Texts, scores and ideas of seven American composers: Ashley, Ono, Cage Anderson, Amirkhanian, Peppe, Atchley.
  San Francisco: Burning Books
  (1986)
  
  
• The Future of Music
  Lecture given at UCSD (2000)
  
  

About Robert Ashley

• Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music
  Gordon Mumma
  Edited with Commentary by Michelle Fillion; Foreword by Christian Wolff
  University of Illinois Press
  Publication date: 2015.
  
  
• A Brief History of New Music
  Hans Ulrich Obrist
  JRP | Ringier, First Edition, March 31, 2014
  
  
• "Meanwhle, Let's Go Back in Time": Allegory, Actuality, and History in Robert Ashley's Television Opera Trilogy
  David Gutkin
  The Opera Quarterly, Oxford University Press
  Publication date: Winter 2014.
  
  
• Robert Ashley: A Biography
  Kyle Gann
  University of Illinois Press
  Publication date: 12/01/2012.
  
  
• Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
  Alvin Lucier
  Wesleyan University Press
  Publication date: 8/27/2012.
  
  
• Biographical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
  Nicole V. Gagne
  Scarecrow Press
  Publication Date: 9/16/2011
  
  
• Le silence, les couleurs du prisme & la mécanique du temps qui passe
  Daniel Caux
  Éditions de l'éclat, Paris
  Publication date: 2009
  
  
• Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
  Kyle Gann
  "Shouting at the Dead: Robert Ashley's Neoplatonist TV Operas",10/8/1991
  "The British Don't Have Oral Sex: Now Eleanor's Idea", 12/13/1994
  ....and other articles
  University of California Press
  Paperback publication date: 2006.
  
  
• American Music in the Twenthieth Century
  Kyle Gann
  Wadsworth Publication Company
  Paperback publication date: 10/28/2005.
  
  

• Robert Ashley: Defining American Opera
  Arthur J. Sabatini
  PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
  Volume 27, Number 2 (PAJ 80), May (2005)
  MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
  An electronic, full text version of PAJ is available from The MIT Press. (subscription)
  
  
• Art, Performance Media: 31 Interviews
  Interview with Robert Ashley from 1991
  Nicholas Zurbrugg, Editor
  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, (2004)
  http://www.upress.umn.edu
  also readable at books.google.com
  
  
• ReViewing Robert Ashley’s “Music with Roots in the Aether”, the first opera for television
  Arthur J. Sabatini
  Millennium Film Journal
  No. 42, Fall 2004, Video: Vintage and Current
  Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
  MFJ is also published on the Internet. The URL for the website of the journal is http://www.mfj-online.org
  
  
• The Sonic Landscapes of Robert Ashley by Arthur Sabatini
  Land/Scape/Theater
  Elinor Fuchs and Una Chauhuri, editors
  The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI (2002), 390 pages
  
  
• Electronic and Experimental Music: pioneers in technology and composition
  by Thomas B. Holmes
  Routledge Books, New York, NY (2002)
  
  
• Performance artists talking in the eighties: Sex, Food, Money/Fame, Ritual/Death
  by Linda Montano
  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (2001)
  
  
• 20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century
  by William Duckworth
  Schirmer Books, New York, NY (1999)
  
  
• Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music
  by Elliott Schwartz, Barney Childs
  Da Capo Press, New York, NY (1998)
  
  
• The Other Side of Echo: The Adventures of a Dyke-Mestiza-Chicana-Marimacha Ranchera Singer in (Robert) Ashleyland, by Christian Herold
  Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Issue 18, 9:2.
  New York University, New York, NY (1998)
  
  
• American Music in the 20th Century
  by Kyle Gann
  Hardcover
  Schirmer Books, New York (1997)
  
  
• Electric Sound: the Past and Promise of Electronic Music
  by Joel Chadabe
  Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey (1997)
  
  
• Conjunctions 28
  Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing. Bradford Morrow, Editor
  Secular Psalms: Music Theater Portfolio (guest edited by Thalia Field).
  From Foreign Experiences
  Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1997)
  
  
• New Voices: American Composers Talk about Their Music
  And So It Goes, Depending (1981) and The Backyard (1983), by Geoff Smith & Nicola Walker Smith
  Stuart Saunders Smith and Thomas De Lio, Editors and Contributors
  Amadeus Press, Portland, Oregon (1995)
  
  
• Happenings and Other Acts
  "The Once Group: Three Pieces", by Robert Ashley
  Mariellen B. Sandford, Editor
  Routledge, New York, NY (1995)
  
  
• American Originals
  Robert Ashley: Interview
  Geoff Smith and Nicola Walker Smith
  Faber and Faber, London (1994)
  
  
• "Ideas from the Church"
  o·blek, A Journal of Lanugage Arts, edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath. Special issue dedicated to Rosemarie and Keith Waldrop to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Burning Deck. The Garlic Press, Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1991)
  
  
• Words and Spaces
  An Anthology of Twentieth Century Musical Experiments in Language and Sonic Environments. "And So It Goes, Depending" (1981) and "The Backyard" (1983), by Robert Ashley
  Stuart Saunders Smith and Thomas De Lio, Editors and Contributors
  University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London (1989)
  
  
• The Voice of New Music: New York City 1972-1982
  by Tom Johnson
  A collection of articles originally published in The Village Voice.
  Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989)
  available for download.
  
  
• Robert Ashley: an interview. conducted by Peter Gena; filmed by Video Data Bank. (1988)
  
  
• The guests go in to supper
  Texts, scores and ideas of seven American composers: Ashley, Ono, Cage Anderson, Amirkhanian, Peppe, Atchley.
  Burning Books, San Francisco, CA & Santa Fe, NM (1987)
  
  
• Formations
  Volume 2, No. 1
  "Space and Time in the World" by David Bailin
  University of Wisconsin Press (1985)
  
  
• Contiguous Lines: Issues and Ideas in the Music of the 60s and 70s
  Edited by Thomas Di Lio
  "Sound Gesture and Symbols", by Thomas De Lio
  University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland (1985)
  
  
• Electronic and Experimental Music
  by Thomas B. Holmes
  Charles Scribners Sons Publishers, New York (1985)
  
  
• Circumscribing the Open Universe
  Essays on: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier
  "Structural Pluralism" by Thomas De Lio
  University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London (1984)
  
  
• All American Music: Composers in the Late 20th Century
  by John Rockwell
  Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, New York (1983)
  
  
• Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers
  by Cole Gagne and Tracy Caras
  Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey/London (1982)
  
  
• Desert Plants
  by Walter Zimmerman
  conversations with: Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jim Burton, Phil Glass, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Pauline Oliveros, David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, Larry Austin, James Tenney, Conlon Nancarrow, La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Charlie Morrow, Garret List, Frederic Rzewski, John Mc Guire, Ben Johnston on Harry Partch.
  Vancouver, Canada (1976) TO BE REPUBLISHED IN 2017
  
  
• Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
  by Michael Nyman
  Schirmer Books, New York (1974)
  
  
• Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
  by Eric Salzman
  Prentice-Hall, New York (1967, 1974 & 1987 - 3rd Edition)
  
  
• Chambers
  by Alvin Lucier
  Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT (1980)
  
  
• Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music
  edited by Gregory Battcock
  Dutton Publishing Co., New York (1981)
  
  
• Scores: An Anthology of New Music
  by Roger Johnson
  Schirmer Books, New York (1981)
  
  
• New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music
  by John Schaefer
  Harper and Row, New York (1987)
  
  
• Resolution: A Critique of Video Art
  Edited by Patti Podesta
  LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (1986)
  
  
• Shadow Show
  by Jamake Highwater
  Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, New York (1986)
  
  
• Recombinant Do Re Mi: Frontiers of the Rock Era
  by Billy Bergman and Richard Horn
  Quill, New York (1985)

Publisher Addresses

Conjunctions
Bard College
Annandale-on Hudson
P.O. Box 9911
Red Hook, NY 12571-9911

Amadeus Press (an imprint of Timber Press, Inc.)
The Haseltine Building
123 West Second Avenue, Suite 450
Portland, OR 97204

Routledge, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge, 11 Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE (1995)

o·blek
box 1242
Stockbridge, MA 01262
(Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath, Editors)
dist: Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution
1814 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702

Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
www.prenhall.com

Burning Books
1320 Escalante Street
Santa Fe, NM 87505