Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (Eastman Studies in Music)

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Composer-performer Julius Eastman used to be an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable within 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 lately. Eastman’s provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others assault us together with his obsessions. Eastman tested limits together with his political aggressiveness, as recounted in legendary scandals he unleashed, as an example, 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 suitable within the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights. The essays in Gay Guerrilla offer context on Eastman’s life history and the era’s social landscape, commentaries at the composer’s personality and talents, and analyses of his music. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist that may be compelling reading for the general reader in addition to scholars occupied with twentieth-century American music, American Studies, gay rights, and civil rights.

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