{"product_id":"gay-guerrilla-9781580469562","title":"Gay Guerrilla","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including \u003ci\u003eGay Guerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvil Nigger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazy Nigger\u003c\/i\u003e, and others, assault us with his obsessions.\u003cbr\u003e Eastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as reflected in legendary scandals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights.\u003cbr\u003e In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in \u003ci\u003eGay Guerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist thatis compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Renée Levine Packer's book \u003ci\u003eThis Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo\u003c\/i\u003e received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the \u003ci\u003eAlbany Times-Union\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Renee Levine-Packer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959957721206,"sku":"9781580469562","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_beea8567-53c5-4ec6-a083-adc4272b53bd.jpg?v=1770499720","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/gay-guerrilla-9781580469562","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}