[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[Kim Cascone]

> Kim- for those of us not properly initiated, beyond some familiarity
> with Adorno and Brecht, how about a reading list?
> Don't isolate - educate.

like Tad pointed out there is a wealth of texts that have made their  
way onto the microsound repository over the years

thoughts:

Terry Eagleton is a good place to start as is Adorno, Marcuse,  
LeFebvre, Gramsci and Benjamin
I highly recommend Adorno's 'The Culture Industry' - but please  
forgive his views on jazz - i.e. don't throw the baby out with the  
bath-water

see if you can find a copy of 'Marxism and Art' by Maynard Solomon -  
pub 1974 by Vintage Books - long out of print but a good place for  
getting your feet wet
this excellent collection of essays started me thinking about the  
intersection of politics and art while in music school

there is a short excerpt from 'A Primer on Marxist Aesthetics' by  
Macdonald Daly on the server that I put up a few years ago - sadly  
the full work is out of print

and Tad also mentioned the Morawski texts he placed up on the server  
- which I haven't gotten around to reading

while I was in Istanbul a friend of mine handed me a thick reprint by  
Henry Klumpenhouwer titled
'Late Capitalism, Lat Marxism and the Study of Music' which is very  
interesting piece

I would also recommend the cannon of Situationist works by Debord and  
Vaneigem - some of which are also on the server

I'd start with the server and let the bibilio's be your road map

tip: that piece on the Gang of Four is also a very good and  
insightful read

that should get you started

FWIW: when debating a Marxist point of view on this list I have often  
suggested that someone should read Adorno
which is usually met with snarky rejoinders by the anti-intellectual  
subset of this list

same as it ever was






  
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