Writings by Beth Anderson

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Commentary

A TO Z ONLINE MATERIALS FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC, 1997, Web Exclusive
The Internet For Women In Music (and those curious about them), INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN MUSIC JOURNAL, Volume 3, #3 (Fall 1997)
"What Makes Music Woman Oriented", 1996, Web Exclusive
"What I Learned In School This Year" NEWS OF MUSIC #11, 2/90, published by Bard College
"The Elements of Cage" for the San Francisco Symphony's New And Unusual Music Series --program notes, 11/25/83
"Beauty Is Revolution" published by AMERICAN WOMEN COMPOSERS' NEWS v.3#3, 1/82 and reprinted in VILE MAGAZINE in Vancouver, B.C., EAR MAGAZINE, TIJDINGEN from De Rode Pomp in Ghent (Jaargang 5/Nr.4); quoted in INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
"My Personal Approach To Music" HERESIES MAGAZINE #10 (their Women in Music issue), 1980
"Feminist Music Critics" HERESIES MAGAZINE #10, 1980
Pauline Oliveros Was Here", THE SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, v.7#21, 2/20-26 of 1980
"Non performing Jobs In Music" PAID MY DUES, 10/79
"Some Enchanted Decade" THE SOHO WEEKLY NEWS 12/27/79, v.7#13
"What's Happening In New Music?" THE SOHO WEEKLY NEWS 12/20/79, v.7#12
"Notes From The Front", THE SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, 6/27/79
"Report From The Front" issues 1-9, June 1979, available from me...
"Spotlight" JOURNAL (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART MAGAZINE) #22, 3/79
"Bay Area New Music" INTERMEDIA MAGAZINE v.1.#1, 1974
"More About Laurie Speigel, Vivian Fine, Meredith Monk, Jim Fulkerson, and John Cage," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 2 #8/9, December-January 1977
"An Interview With Rhys Chatham" and "Dialogue With Laurie Spiegel," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 2 #7, November 1976
"Women In Numb e r s," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 2 #I, February 1976
"The Masque Of Clouds," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 1 #6, November 1975
"Questions And Answers," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 1 #5, October 1975
"Garrett List at Phill Niblock's," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 1 #3, 1975
"Ode For The Bicentennial' and 'Copyright Amazement," EAR MAGAZINE, vol. 1 #2, May 1975
"Jill Kroesen Did Two Nights" and "Deep Ear" and 'The Ripert Bulletin," EAR MAGAZINE #25, March 1975
"Seasonal Workers: A Way To Save our Cities," and Christina Found A Friend," EAR MAGAZINE #24, February 1975
"The Agonies Of Saying Good-Bye" and "I Want To Say A Little Something" and "Schoenberg, Ives," EAR MAGAZINE #22, December 1974
"The Scarlet Aardvark" and "The Martian Art" and "Hysteresis Concert Series," FAR MAGAZINE #21, November 1974
"City Is A Concept" and "Nothing Like A Nice Quiet (Or Quite Mad) Trip To Cabrillo Music Festival," EAR MAGAZINE #19, September 1974
"There Are More Things In Heaven and Earth Than We Ever Dreamed," EAR MAGAZINE #18, August 1974
"The First Movement of Morton Feldman's 'Last Pieces'" and "Also...," EAR MAGAZINE #17, July 1974
"Feathers Glitter Fly," EAR MAGAZINE #16, June 1974
"Mystery Of Duck In The Elevator" and "With Promises to Love, Honor and Cherish" and "Says She Just Took Vacation," EAR MAGAZINE #15, May 1974
"She Is Alright," EAR MAGAZINE #13- 14.5, March/April 1974
"Miss M. Wows 'Em," EAR MAGAZINE #10/11, December 1973 - January 1974
"Interview With Bob Sheff," EAR MAGAZINE #8, October 1973 Boost in Price Of Blood," and "The Disenchanted" and "Prosecution Rests," EAR MAGAZINE #7, September 1973
"Time Of The Year" and "MOCA" and "Plans" and "Hearings" and 'White Walls and Hardwood Floors and Yoko Ono," EAR MAGAZINE #6, June 1973
"Zaj--Spanish Dada," "What Does Ear Hear?," and "Peachy Keen-O", EAR MAGAZINE #5, May 1973

There are several good sources of books/articles/scores/programs relating to Beth Anderson's work. The best are probably the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center and the American Music Center. Ear Magazine is available from the Pauline Oliveros Foundation.

Story Published

"My Dream Sound", in BIG DEAL MAGAZINE, 9/76, edited by Barbara Baracks

Mail Art Hung:

RUSTY LECTURES ON THE INTERNET, appeared in Mailed Art In Uppsala, an exhibit in Uppsala, Sweden from June 4-September 17, 1994.
First New York City Post Card Show from N.Y.U toured 15 galleries in the mid-70's

Text-Sound Published:

IF I WERE A POET appears in VAN GOGH'S EAR, Autumn 2002, Issue #1
JACKSON MACLOW, was published in CRAYON, 9/29/97, in celebration of Jackson's 75th birthday
IF I WERE A POET appears in Richard Kostelanetz' TEXT-SOUND TEXTS, 1980, and in ASSEMBLINGS 1975 and in EAR MAGAZINE v.2 #1, 2/76
CRACKERS AND CHECKERS appears in Richard Kostelanetz' TEXT-SOUND TEXTS, 1980, and in BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, 1979
PE-YO-TE (print), TORERO PIECE (print) and YES SIR REE (audio) are in a book entitled ED VOGELSANG "VIEWS BESIDE..." edited by Fritz Balthaus, Berlin 1982
HE'S NOT AFRAID OF MARRYING ME is in BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, 1979 and in DRAMATIKA MAGAZINE v.XI, Spring 1978, issue #21, edited by John Pyros
SOAP TUNING is also in DRAMATIKA MAGAZINE v.XI, Spring 1978, issue #21, edited by John Pyros
NONGOVERNMENTAL PROCESS is in the 12/76 issue of THE POETRY MAILING LIST, edited by Stephen Paul Miller
POEM TO JOHN AND ALISON is in EAR MAGAZINE-NY, v.1 #3, Summer 1975
TWELVE BAR BLUES is in EAR MAGAZINE-NY v.2 #2, April 1976
LET IT is in EAR MAGAZINE-NY v.2 #4, Summer 1976
6.76 KENTUCKY POEM is in EAR MAGAZINE v.2. #5/6, 9/76
THE PEOPLE RUMBLE LOUDER is in ASSEMBLINGS 1975 edited by Richard Kostelanetz'
Various text-sound and graphic scores are published in the 2/76 issue of HEUTE KUNST and in the 12/75 issue of FLASH ART