Introduction
Part I: Maps
Chapter 1
Affect—Praxis
Chapter 2
Veils—Atmospheres
Global Inequities
Intentionality and Grammar
Plays of Recognition
Atmospheres
Part II: Studios
Chapter 3
David Tudor, Esoteric Spectacle . . . c. 1958
Tudor’s Pianism of the 1950s
Cage’s Noumena of the 1950s
Tudor—Cage—Graph J
Ferocious Ineffability
Chapter 4
Ornette Coleman, Utopian Intentionalities . . . c. 1966
Bebop Historicity
Deskilling Intentionalities
Vernacular Utopias
Harmolodic Ineffability
Chapter 5
The Velvet Underground, Eleven Rooms . . . c. 1967
Drone Alchemy
Afro-magnetism
Atmospheric Rooms
Attitudinal Virtuosity
Vital Tape
Chapter 6
Alice Coltrane, Divine Injunctions . . . c. 1971
Afrocentric Spiritualities
Ornamental Apparitions
Coltrane’s Philosophy
Divine Injunctions
Afro-futurity
Chapter 7
Patti Smith—Richard Hell, Forces . . . c. 1974
Punk Primitivism
Poetry, Alchemy, Force
Paradoxes of the Erotic
The Aura of Unknowing
Conclusion
A Materialist Music History
Acknowledgments
Archival Collections
Notes
Index