Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
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The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed...
Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music
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Lennie Tristano occupies a rare position in jazz history. Emerging from an era when modernism was...
This Planet Is Doomed: Poems of Sun Ra
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Bhob Stewart writes: Beyond the interplanetary theatricality, catchphrases, non sequiturs, science...
The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context
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The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a...
London Calling
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London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers...
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
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In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout...
B Jenkins
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The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named...
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate...
A Kind of Magic: Art Deco Vanity Cases
Sarah Hue-Williams and Peter Edwards
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After 1918, post-war euphoria spread across Europe and America. Technology was changing the pace of...