MAM Literature & Materials / JCM American Sonic Practices statement of intent:
NB: This was required through Spring 2020 and for some brave souls current through Spring 2022.  To reflect current academic status, read all verbs in the past tense (are=were, is=was, etc.)
The Literature and Materials classes are the academic component of the JCM curriculum at the Longy School of Music.  It is a four-semester cycle that alternates between equal consideration of Jazz and Classical musics through historical, aesthetic and analytical lenses.  In this regard, the cycle is academically unique.  It is one of the few courses anywhere that delves into the similarities, contrasts, conflicts and relationships that make up the complex dynamism that exists among all realms of American Sonic Exploration.
Therefore, students should think of themselves as trailblazers, mapmakers — the PJE-censored “Introduction” to A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari will be a constant reference for all four semesters.  Along those lines we will define and address the issues of being ‘Modern American.’
Fall semesters will proceed mostly chronologically through the dates, details and aesthetics of the personae in questions.  Maps will be made to show connections between composers, improvisers, musicians, as well as artists, celebrities, etc, almost in the manner of a soft science, as a kind of pop analysis.
Spring semesters will proceed chronologically through the scores and transcriptions of the actual music via an open-ended analytical framework that is comparative and connective in nature, a la Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music by Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot.  Maps will be to demonstrate designs within music and connections between composers, improvisers and musician, more in the manner of hard science.
For success students will need:
1) rigorous engagement with the course material
2) expression of creative thought
3) sound graduate-level scholarship and academic integrity
4) dedication to this MAM aesthetic
Though the coursework will be demanding, rigorous and sometimes obtuse, students who dedicate themselves through all four semester will be rewarded with one of the most unique educational opportunities available to graduate students anywhere.

the PJE-censored version as it relates to the original paragraphs…

• p.3: paragraphs 1 and 2
• p.4: cut 2nd 1/2 of para.2, All we talk about…” starts para.3
• p.5 “A first type of book…” starts para.4, “The radicle-system, …” starts para.5
• p. 6: still from para.5
• p.7: “1 and 2. Principles…” starts para.6
• p.8: “3 . Principle of…” starts para.7
• p.9: “4 . Principle of…” starts para.8
• p.10 “How could movements…” starts para.9
• p.11, para.10 starts in middle of page
• p.12: “5 and 6. Principles of…” starts para.11;
  “The rhizome is altogether…” starts para.12
• p.13 “Have we no, however, …” starts para.13
• p.14 [blank[
• p.15: “Thought is not arborescent…” starts para.15
• p.16: “The tree and root…” starts para.16
• para.17 starts in the middle of p.17
• p.18: “It is odd…” starts para.18
• p.19: “America is a special case.” starts para.19
• para.20 starts at the top of p.21
  “At the same time…” starts para.21
• p.21: “Let us summarize…” starts para.22
  “A plateau is always…” starts para 23
• p.22: still para 23
• p.23: “History is always written…” starts para.24
• p.24: “write to the nth power, …” starts para.25
• p.25 “A rhizome has no beginning or end…” starts para.26

the complete version is here………..