Kai Schumacher, Patricia Martin, Benedikt ter. Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was a composer, conductor, singer, pianist, and choreographer. Julius Eastman: Evil Nigger / Gay Guerrilla (Works For 4 Pianos) Kai Schumacher.

This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, collaborated with key musical. The project is a musical-choreographic exploration of the works of Afro-American composer. 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. Born in Manhattan in 1940, Eastman was a precocious pianist, blessed with a commanding bass voice. Speak Boldly - The Julius Eastman Dance Project / GAY GUERRILLA. 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. 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. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today.Įastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.

The other driving force behind this book is the composer Mary Jane. 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. First, there is Rene Levine Packer, a chronicler of late twentieth-century American experimental music who knew Eastman since his early days as a Creative Associate at the University at Buffalo.

Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union.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. 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. A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastmans enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

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. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.Įastman 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 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. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.Ĭomposer-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.

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