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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM By Paul Steinbeck. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM By Paul Steinbeck. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2025

Jason Robinson
Jason Robinson*
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Department of Music, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
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Email: jrobinson@amherst.edu
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 2025 , pp. 71 - 74
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Presented by Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares, the performance took place on Friday, March 10, 2023, at Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

2 Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers, Cuneiform Records RUNE 350/351/352/353, 2012, 4 compact discs.

3 See (Wadada) Leo Smith, Notes (8 Pieces) Source a New World Music: Creative Music (self-published, 1979).

4 Steinbeck, Paul, Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Lewis, George E., A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Roscoe Mitchell, Sound, Delmark Records DS-408, 1966, LP; [Muhal] Richard Abrams, Levels and Degrees of Light, Delmark Records DS-413, 1968, LP.

7 Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah, Nessa Records N-9/10, 1977, 2 LPs.

8 Anthony Braxton, For Trio, Arista Records AB 4181, 1978, LP; Air, Air Time, Nessa Records N-12, 1978, LP.

9 Threadgill, Henry and Edwards, Brent Hayes, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (New York: Knopf, 2023)Google Scholar.

10 George Lewis, Endless Shout, Tzadik Records TZ 7054, 2000, compact disc.

11 See Lewis, George E., “Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in ‘Voyager,’” Leonardo Music Journal 10 (2000): 33–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Fred Anderson, Volume Two, Asian Improv Records AIR 0054, 2000, 2 compact discs.

13 AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, At Umbria Jazz 2009, Musica Jazz MJCD 1226, 2010, compact disc.

14 Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, FPE Records FPE 012CD, 2017, compact disc.

15 This earlier piece has not been released as an album. See Michael Ricci, “Nicole Mitchell Premieres Collaborative Multi-Arts ‘Mandorla Awakening’ November 22–23, 2013,” All About Jazz, November 17, 2017, https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/nicole-mitchell-premieres-collaborative-multi-arts-mandorla-awakening-november-22-23-2013. Also see Gantt, Nicole Mitchell's book, The Mandorla Letters: for the Hopeful (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022)Google Scholar.