Gay Guerrilla - Julius Eastman and His Music

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

List of contents

Foreword by George E. Lewis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Julius Eastman and His Music - Renee Levine Packer
Julius Eastman, A Biography - Renee Levine Packer
Unjust Malaise - David Borden
The Julius Eastman Parables - R. Nemo Hill
Julius Eastman and the Conception of "Organic Music" - Kyle Gann
Julius Eastman Singing - John Patrick Thomas
An Accidental Musicologist Passes the Torch - Mary Jane Leach
A Flexible Musical Identity: Julius Eastman in New York City, 1976-90 - Ryan Dohoney
Evil Nigger: A Piece for Multiple Instruments of the Same Type by Julius Eastman (1979), with Performance Instructions by Joseph Kubera - David Borden
A Postminimalist Analysis of Julius Eastman's Crazy Nigger - Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek
"The Piece Does Not Exist without Julius": Still Staying on Stay On It - Matthew Mendez
Connecting the Dots - Mary Jane Leach
Gay Guerrilla: A Minimalist Choralphantasie - Luciano Chessa
Appendix: Julius Eastman Compositions - Mary Jane Leach
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Renée Levine Packer, Mary Jane Leach

Summary

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

Product details

• Authors: David Borden, Andrew Hanson-dvoracek, Mary Jane Leach, Ren Levine Packer, Renee Levine Packer, Renée Levine Packer, Renee Levine Packer, John Patrick Thomas
• Assisted by: Mary Jane Leach (Editor), Mary Jane (Customer) Leach (Editor), Ren Levine Packer (Editor), Renee Levine Packer (Editor), Renée Levine Packer (Editor), Renee Levine-Packer (Editor), Renee (Customer) Levine-Packer (Editor), Renee Levine Packer (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781580465342
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-534-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 623 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology