DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE & FOLLOW IT C

La Monte Young is one of America's most important living composers, but his esoteric compositional methods and reclusive personality have prevented in-depth scholarly examination of his life and work. This book draws on rare access to the composer and his archives to tell the story of one America's most enigmatic artists.

Jeremy Grimshaw is an assistant professor in the School of Music at Brigham Young University and the founding director of BYU's Balinese ensemble, Gamelan Bintang Wahyu. His writing on contemporary American music has appeared in various scholarly publications, including The Musical Quarterly and American Music. He also authored a work of creative non-fiction, The Island of Bali Is Littered With Prayers.

- Contents - Introduction: Gonzo Musicology - Chapter 1: The Tabula (Not So) Rasa: La Monte Young's Early Life and Early Works - Chapter 2: Getting Inside the Sound: The Works from 1959-60 - Chapter 3: The Ideology of the Drone: La Monte Young The Mystic - Chapter 4: Space Exploration, Part 1: Telos and Stasis in the Dream House - Chapter 5: Space Exploration, Part 2: Mormon Cosmology and The Well-Tuned Piano - Epilogue: After Teleology - Appendix: Chronological List of Compositions - Notes - Bibliography