Introduction : the aesthetics of perspectives / John Rahn -- Ritual sacrifice and the political economy of music / Douglas Collins -- Language for one, language for all : Adorno and modernism / Rainer Rochlitz -- Art and entertainment / Eric Gans -- What is valuable in art, and can music still achieve it? / John Rahn -- The beginning and end of esthetic form / Eric Gans -- Contemporary music and the public / Michel Foucault and Pierre Boulez -- Are you serious? / J.K. Randall -- Recent ideas and activities of James K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz : a new social role for music / Fred Everett Maus -- Interface I-V : texts and commentaries on music and life / Benjamin Boretz -- On having been and still being an American composer / Milton Babbitt -- Tokyo lecture and three mesostics / John Cage -- Creativity / Iannis Xenakis -- Composing music / Robert Erickson -- Speculations : on the evolutionary continuity of music and animal communication behavior / David Dunn -- Four texts / Elaine Barkin -- On the role of affect in artificial intelligence and music / Robert Duisberg -- Environment, consciousness, and magic : an interview with David Dunn / Michael R. Lampert -- Joyce's critique of music / Arthur Nestrovski -- Symposium : the nature of music / Arthur Berger -- Music and emotion / Herbert Schwartz -- Poetry as imitation / Delmore Schwartz -- Music as imitation / Arthur Berger -- For a friend / Clayton Eshleman -- LA / Kenneth Gaburo -- The survival of aesthetics : books, by Boulez, DeLio, Rochberg / Susan Blaustein -- Response to Blaustein / Thomas DeLio -- Open structure and the problem of criticism : reflections on DeLio's Circumscribing the open universe / Herman Sabbe.