Renée Levine Packer & Mary Jane Leach (eds), Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music

As someone who first became interested in ‘new’ music as a student in the late 1980s, and has continued playing, studying, writing about and teaching music by composers variously considered to be minimalist, postminimalist and experimental (amongst other denominations), my first encounter with the...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition,
Autor principal: Laws, Catherine
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Transposition 2018
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:As someone who first became interested in ‘new’ music as a student in the late 1980s, and has continued playing, studying, writing about and teaching music by composers variously considered to be minimalist, postminimalist and experimental (amongst other denominations), my first encounter with the music of Julius Eastman, in 2012, was exciting but also troubling. Exciting because this music grabbed me similarly, in certain respects, to now canonic minimalist pieces such as Reich’s Music for ...