![]() Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Renée Levine Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. in legendary scandals like his June performance of John Cages Song Books. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist that is compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights. Composer-performer Julius Eastman was an enigma, both comfortable and. Ensemble explored its past, focusing on the music of John Cage, Julius Eastman and Morton Feldman, all of whom had long relationships with the ensemble. 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. 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. 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. In 1975, as a member of the experimental S.E.M. for example, his June 1975 performance of John Cages Song Books. ![]() Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions. Eastman was nominated for a Grammy in 1974 for his recording of Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King. Composer-performer Julius Eastman was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. To consider the ‘Song Books’ as a work of art is nearly impossible, this pathbreaking composer once said regarding his. In Tomorrow is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies (pp. 5, 2017 Among other gifts, John Cage was skilled at deflection. 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. John Cage, Julius Eastman, and the homosexual ego.
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