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Last man standing:
The acquisitive music of John Zorn

By Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel is A Heaven of Others. Another novel, Graven Imaginings, will be published next year.

Discussed in this essay:

John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression, by John Brackett. Indiana University Press. 218 pages. $24.95.

Arcana: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn. Granary Books/Hips Road. 380 pages. $34.95.

Arcana II: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn. Hips Road. 298 pages. $34.95.

Arcana III: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn. Hips Road. 250 pages. $34.95.

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SEE ALSO: Arcana III: musicians on music (Book); Arcana II: musicians on music (Book); Arcana: musicians on music (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Brackett, John Lowell; Zorn, John; John Zorn: tradition and transgression (Book); Music
Response: July 2009, page 5
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