John Zorn’s File Card Works: Hypertextual Intermediality in Composition and Analysis

First study of contemporary composer John Zorn’s ‘file card’ compositions. Provides a unique approach to music semiotics and hermeneutics inspired by hypertextual analysis and intermedia studies. Offers the first theorization of an ‘uncreative’ or ‘unoriginal’ music. Contains a conceptual poem based on John Zorn’s composition Godard. Contains images of Zorn’s file cards that have yet to be made public.