Meredith Monk has enthralled audiences since the early 1960s. Her visionary work as performer, composer, choreographer, filmmaker, singer, and dancer has helped to define the American avant garde and earned numerous honors and awards - including a MacArthur fellowship in 1995. In Meredith Monk, editor Deborah Jowitt creates an absorbing portrait of an artist whose career spans three decades of American avant-garde performance. Bringing together writings by Monk, herself, along with significant reviews, essays, interviews, and photographs of Monk's unique performance events, the book establishes her as one of the great treasures of contemporary American culture.