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The Wire Primers(1st Edition)
A Guide to Modern Music
by Rob Young, Contributor-Nick Cain, Contributor-Louise Gray, Contributor-David Keenan, Contributor-Mike Barnes, Contributor-Art Lange, Contributor-Stewart Lee, Contributor-Alan Licht, Contributor-Edwin Pouncey, Contributor-Ben Ratliff, Contributor-Simon Reynolds, Contributor-Peter Shapiro, Contributor-John Szwed, Contributor-Derek Walmsley, Contributor-Barry Witherden
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-427-5, ISBN: 1-84467-427-4

"An essential handbook to the most advanced modern music from the Bible of experimental sounds. Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the plan ..."






Common Tones
Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020
by Licht, Alan; Sanders, Jay ; Licht, Alan ;
Softcover, 450 Pages, Published 2021 by Blank Forms Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-953691-01-9, ISBN: 1-953691-01-3

"Common Tones gathers a selection of never-before-published interviews, many conducted during the writing of Licht's groundbreaking profiles, alongside extended versions of his celebrated conversations with artists, previously untranscribed ..."






Title TK
An Anthology
by Cory Arcangel, Title Tk, Howie Chen, Alan Licht, Primary Information
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2017 by Primary Information
ISBN-13: 978-0-9915585-0-6, ISBN: 0-9915585-0-2

"Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a "band" that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage as a band, the members do not play live music. Instead the performances are conversations between the three artists about music, performance and the music industry, and their act plays with the tensions created by the audience's expectations and the actuality of their pe ..."






Sound Art Revisited
by Alan Licht
208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3314-9, ISBN: 1-5013-3314-3

"... Kirkegaard, Jutta Koether, Liz Kotz, Ulrich Krieger, Damon Krukowski, Thom Kubli, Andrew Lampert, Zach Layton, Franck Leibovici ... Helen Homan Wu, Kolby Yarnell, C. Spencer Yeh, La Monte Young, Rob Young, Marian Zazeela, and John Zinsser. ... at the Center for Book Arts, Jay Wegman, Martin Dust, and Jonathan Durham at Abrons Arts Center, Marina Rosenfeld, Bob Bielecki, and Bill Dietz at the."






Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy(1st Edition)
by Will Oldham, Alan Licht
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34433-2, ISBN: 0-393-34433-9

"A captivating and revelatory glimpse into the life of one of the most critically acclaimed and enigmatic musicians working today. The man who acts under the name Will Oldham and sings and composes under the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy has, over the past quarter-century, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema. These conversations with longtime friend and associate A ..."






Jews and the American Public Square
Debating Religion and Republic
by Alan L. Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna, Robert Licht, Marshall J. Breger, Naomi W. Cohen, David G. Dalin, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Hillel Fradkin, Sherry Israel, Ralph Lerner, David Novak, Martin J. Plax, Harvey Sicherman, Marc D. Stern, Jack Wertheimer
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2123-0, ISBN: 0-7425-2123-0






Jews and the American Public Square
Debating Religion and Republic
by Alan L. Mittleman, Robert Licht, Hillel Fradkin, Sherry Israel, Ralph Lerner, David Novak, Harvey Sicherman, Jonathan D. Sarna, Marshall J. Breger, Naomi W. Cohen, David G. Dalin, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Martin J. Plax, Marc D. Stern, Contributor-Jack Wertheimer, Contributor-Naomi W....
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2124-7, ISBN: 0-7425-2124-9






Sound Art Revisited
by Alan Licht
208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3315-6, ISBN: 1-5013-3315-1

"... Steve 9, 134 Rohtko's Chapel (Kelley) 88 Romance Sentimentale 24 Romantic Symmetry, The (Young) 37 Rose, Jodi 74 Rose, Jon 74 ... 26 Saatchi, Charles 130 Sala, Anri 128, 129 Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 36 Salt Flat (Oppenheim) 54–5 sampling 8, 120, 129, 137 ... Erik 24–5, 27, 90,94, 109, 110, 130, 133–4 Scanner 88, 133, 148 Schaefer, Janek 148 Schaeffer, Pierre 26–7, 33, 36, 59, 63, 79, ..."






Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer
Drift
by Lee Renaldo, Leah Singer, Lea Rekow, Tom Lesser, Alan Licht, Roland Spekle, Sam Durant, Jonas Mekas
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Plexifilm
ISBN-13: 978-1-933045-34-4, ISBN: 1-933045-34-5

""Drift, " a collaboration between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, has been growing since 1991 and is documented here, at last, on DVD. While Singer manipulates films in a live improvisation, not unlike the way a DJ mixes sound, Ranaldo produces music, sounds and texts in response. "Drift's" immersive sonic and visual environment has traveled to museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide, a ..."






The All-new Adventures Of Royal Trux
by Neil Michael Hagerty, Alan Licht
Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2001 by Drag City
ISBN-13: 978-0-9656183-4-2, ISBN: 0-9656183-4-X






An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn
by Alan Licht
Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2000 by Drag City
ISBN-13: 978-0-9656183-3-5, ISBN: 0-9656183-3-1

"You owe it to the indie-rock fan in yourself to get An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn."






Sound Art Revisited(Reprint)
by Professor Alan Licht
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3377-4, ISBN: 1-5013-3377-1

"The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed through a lens of music and art histories rather than philosophical theory, it covers dozens of artists and works not found in any other boo ..."






Martin Kippenberger(1st Edition)
Eggman II
by Alan Licht, Martin Kippenberger
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2012 by Skarstedt Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-61623-720-2, ISBN: 1-61623-720-1

"One of the most versatile and prolific artists of the postwar era, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) has been the subject of numerous major exhibitions since his premature death at the age of 44. The last exhibition in his lifetime took place at the Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, in Monchengladbach, Germany, and was titled "Der Eiermann und seine Ausleger" ("The Eggman and his Outriggers"). This publication focuses on nine paintings, a gro ..."






Jewish Polity and American Civil Society
Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square
by Alan Mittleman, Robert A. Licht, Allan Arkush, Lawrence Grossman, Steven Windmueller, Jonathan D. Sarna, Joel M. Carp, Samuel C. Heilman, Daniel J. Elazar, Gordon M. Freeman, Michael C. Kotzin, Martin J. Raffel, Lance J. Sussman, Steven Windmueller Dr, David A. Teutsch, Albert Loren Weeks
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2122-3, ISBN: 0-7425-2122-2

"Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is a study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denominational institutions. The book explores how the various branches of the organized Jewish community seek to influence public affairs. Over the course of the last century, Jewish agencies and religious movements have tried to shape public debate and public policy on such issues as civil right ..."






Sound Art
Beyond Music, Between Categories
by Alan Licht, Jim O'rourke, Brandon Labelle
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-2969-9, ISBN: 0-8478-2969-3

"Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn ..."






Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
by Alan Licht, Will Oldham
Ebook, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27191-7, ISBN: 0-571-27191-X

"A man who acts under the name Will Oldham and a singer-songwriter who performs under the name Bonnie Prince Billy has, over the past quarter of a century, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie ..."






Cory Arcangel
All The Small Things (Heart Future Ixhibition Program)
by Michael Bank Christoffersen, Jonah Peretti, Alain Licht, Cory Arcangel, Alan Licht, Holger Reenberg
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Koenig Books
ISBN-13: 978-3-86335-545-6, ISBN: 3-86335-545-8

"New York-based artist Cory Arcangel (born 1978) is a leading exponent of technology-based art, drawn to video games and software for their ability to rapidly formulate new communities and traditions and, equally, their speed of obsolescence. His work bridges the highbrow and the lowbrow, popular culture and art. With "All The Small Things," Arcangel presents media and cultural references that are widely accessible and known to the masse ..."






Lost City(1st Edition)
by Aki Onda, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Niels Van Tomme, Jack Allett, Jeroen Wille, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Anna Papanastasiou, Zeljko Mcmullen
Vinyl, Published 2015 by Audiomer
Import
ISBN-13: 978-94-91775-88-8, ISBN: 94-91775-88-X


1. A1. Lost City #1 (23:19)  


2. B1. Lost City #2 (18:28)  

"The images were shot in New York between 2001 and 2002. It was during the time when we were still in shock from 9.11. The stars and stripes suddenly became visible everywhere in the city. Soon after, the invasion of Afghanistan started. Everybody was living under an indefinable fear - not knowing what would happen in the future -Aki Onda. Lost City started as a series of photographs shot by visual artist and composer Aki Onda in New Yor ..."






Catherine Ceresole(1st Edition)
Beauty Lies in the Eye
by Catherine Ceresole, Thurston Moore, Christian Marclay, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Centre Culturel Suisse
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2013 by Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN-13: 978-3-905929-43-0, ISBN: 3-905929-43-0

"1979 zog Catherine Ceresole zusammen mit ihrem Mann Nicolas nach New York, wo er eine Ausbildung zum Toningenieur beginnen sollte. Der eigentliche Grund jedoch war die Underground-Musikszene der Stadt, die das Paar in den Bann geschlagen hatte. Bald schon waren sie mit zahlreichen Musikern befreundet, und Catherine begann, sie an Konzerten und im vertrauten Rahmen zu fotografieren. So entstand eine einmalige Dokumentation der Hochblute ..."






Bonnie 'Prince' Billy por Will Oldham(1st Edition)
by Alan Licht, Will Oldham, Gabriel Cereceda Oyón, Begoña Martínez Sarrà, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Magnus Johnstone, Yvesfot. Borgwardt, Davidfot. Tonge, Contraediciones S.L., Alan Oldham
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by Contra
ISBN-13: 978-84-939850-9-7, ISBN: 84-939850-9-0

"En esta apasionante, extensa y exhaustiva entrevista, Will Oldham, el cantautor de Kentucky detrás del proyecto Palace, más conocido como Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, relata su periplo vital y creativo. Músico inclasificable —su música se nutre de géneros como el rock, el pop, el folk, el country, el bluegrass y la música étnica, aunque es refractaria a todos ellos— y también actor —ha trabajado a las órdenes de directores tan prestigiosos co ..."



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