Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition)

Description

This PAJ Publications title joins "Performance Ideas," a series that features interviews and short essay collections that crossover performance, visual arts, dance, sound, media. The series should appeal to the contemporary visual arts and performance audience internationally. The books fill a unique multi-disciplinary niche that PAJ is known for in other volumes and its widely respected journal, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. In addition to new interviews about Monk's most recent work, the expanded edition contains an 8-page color insert. Meredith Monk was recently awarded the 2020 John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Bonnie Marranca is the author of the essay collections Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings. She is the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.

"Meredith Monk is one of the most important composers alive. I remember hearing her Dolmen Music as a teenager. It most definitely provided me with one of my musical DNAs ... As a person she is a fierce spirit, optimistic, spiritual, and soulful." -- Bjoerk "If Monk is seeking a place in the classical firmament, classical music has much to learn from her. She conveys a fundamental humanity and humility that is rare in new-music circles." -- Alex Ross * New Yorker * "Meredith Monk is one of American Music's greatest treasures and most original voices. I cherish her brave, singular creative journey." -- Rick Moody "Meredith Monk has given new voice to the spirit, knit the word together with her universal vision to music, and balanced movement and stillness in ways that illuminate and transform us all. Eternity will never be the same." -- Pico Iyer