Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (Eastman Studies in Music, 129, Band 129) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158046534X ISBN 13: 9781580465342

Verlag: University of Rochester Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.
Eastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as reflected in legendary scandals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights.
In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist thatis compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights.
This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Renée Levine-Packer is an arts administrator and author of This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo (OUP 2010).

Mary Jane Leach is a composer and performer and has been very active in recovering and reviving the music of Julius Eastman.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Rochester Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 158046534X
• ISBN 13: 9781580465342
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Herausgeber: Packer Renee Levine, Leach Mary Jane
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