[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[CraqueMat]

exactly what i wanted! thanks Kim.

Kim Cascone wrote:
>> Kim- for those of us not properly initiated, beyond some familiarity
>> with Adorno and Brecht, how about a reading list?
>> Don't isolate - educate.
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> like Tad pointed out there is a wealth of texts that have made their way 
> onto the microsound repository over the years
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> thoughts:
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> 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
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> 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 
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> 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 
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> and Tad also mentioned the Morawski texts he placed up on the server - 
> which I haven't gotten around to reading
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> 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 
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> I would also recommend the cannon of Situationist works by Debord and 
> Vaneigem - some of which are also on the server
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> I'd start with the server and let the bibilio's be your road map
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> tip: that piece on the Gang of Four is also a very good and insightful read 
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> that should get you started
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> 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
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> same as it ever was
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