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. Parte 1 Julius Eastman, Frank Ferko, Janet Kattas, Patricia Martin, pianoforti. 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. 56K views 11 years ago Julius Eastman (1940-1990): Gay Guerrilla, per 4 pianoforti (c.
Gay Guerilla sheds some light on Eastman’s method and his choices, as well as his place in music and civil rights history whilst preserving the private power in Eastman’s gentle aura an inaccessible place from which the.
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. Julius Eastman’s reputation as a confrontational genius paints an incomplete picture of the renegade composer. 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. Eastman’s provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.
Pero si no eran reclutados y se quedaban en el territorio tenían que ocultar al máximo esos rasgos para no ser castigados a futuro o no ser desplazado. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Si ese era el caso, tenían que ocultar completamente su identidad de género y su orientación sexual para proteger su vida en la guerrilla porque no había forma de ser LGBTI y salir ileso. 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.
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