+1 862 207 3288 Reading for this assignment:
George E. Lewis, “Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological
Perspectives,” in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music ed. Christoph Cox
and Daniel Warner (New York: Continuum Publishing Group, 2006) 272 – 284.
In this article, George Lewis (composer, trombonist, and scholar) stages a critique of the
relationship between two forms of spontaneous music making from 1950s America: American
jazz and indeterminate music after John Cage.
(20 points total.) Please respond to the questions below in complete prose following the
formatting guidelines for written work outlined in the syllabus. All responses should be in
your own words; quotations from the articles should largely be avoided. Please be concise
and limit your response to approximately 2 pages.
1. (10 points. ) In your own words, write a (perhaps 2 – 3 paragraph) summary of the discussion
presented in this article .
2. (5 points.) In the context of Lewis’ discussion, what does he mean by exnomination ? What
role does exnomination play in Lewis’ discussion of indeterminacy?
3. (5 points.) Lewis frequently discusses the postwar desire among composers to “start from
scratch” and make music without a connection to the past or musical traditions; why is Lewis
skeptical of this idea? What alternative view of history does Lewis provide to counter this idea?
What aspect( s ) of “Afrological” music making does Lewis value as an anecdote to this
“memory- less” stance?
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