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Gay guerrilla : Julius Eastman and his music /

"Composer-performer Julius Eastman 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 re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Levine Packer, Renée, 1940- (Editor), Leach, Mary Jane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 129.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / George E. Lewis; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Julius Eastman and His Music; 1. Julius Eastman, A Biography; 2. Unjust Malaise; 3. The Julius Eastman Parables; 4. Julius Eastman and the Conception of "Organic Music"; 5. Julius Eastman Singing; 6. An Accidental Musicologist Passes the Torch; 7. A Flexible Musical Identity: Julius Eastman in New York City, 1976-90; Photographs; 8. Evil Nigger: A Piece for Multiple Instruments of the Same Type by Julius Eastman (1979), with Performance Instructions by Joseph Kubera; 9. A Postminimalist Analysis of Julius Eastman's Crazy Nigger; 10. "That Piece Does Not Exist without Julius": Still Staying on Stay On It;11. Connecting the Dots; 12 Gay Guerrilla: A Minimalist Choralphantasie; Appendix: Julius Eastman Compositions; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index.