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<blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Kim- for those of us not properly initiated, beyond some familiarity</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">with Adorno and Brecht, how about a reading list?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Don't isolate - educate.</font></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">like Tad pointed out there is a wealth of texts that have made their way onto the microsound repository over the years</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>thoughts:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Terry Eagleton is a good place to start as is Adorno, Marcuse, LeFebvre, Gramsci and Benjamin</font></div><div>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</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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</div><div>this excellent collection of essays started me thinking about the intersection of politics and art while in music school </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">there is a short excerpt from 'A Primer on Marxist Aesthetics' by </font><font style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Macdonald Daly</span></font></font></font><font style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">on the server that I put up a few years ago - sadly the full work is out of print </font></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">and Tad also mentioned the Morawski texts he placed up on the server - which I haven't gotten around to reading</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">while I was in Istanbul a friend of mine handed me a thick reprint by Henry Klumpenhouwer titled </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">'Late Capitalism, Lat Marxism and the Study of Music' which is very interesting piece </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I would also recommend the cannon of Situationist works by Debord and Vaneigem - some of which are also on the server</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I'd start with the server and let the bibilio's be your road map</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">tip: that piece on the Gang of Four is also a very good and insightful read </font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>that should get you started</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>FWIW: when debating a Marxist point of view on this list I have often suggested that someone should read Adorno</div><div>which is usually met with snarky rejoinders by the anti-intellectual subset of this list</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>same as it ever was</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> </div></body></html>