(EPUB) [Henry Cow]

• Hardcover
• 512
• Henry Cow
• Benjamin Piekut
• English
• 14 March 2019
• 9781478004059

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review Henry Cow Benjamin Piekut î 5 Summary Free read Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free î Benjamin Piekut Scores journals and meeting notes Piekut traces the group’s pursuit of a political and musical collectivism offering up its history as but one example of the vernacular avant garde that emerged in the decades after World War II Henry Cow’s story resonates far beyond its inimitable music; it speaks to the avant garde’s unpredictable potential to transform the wor As a self proclaimed fat book charting the birth life and painful death of the vernacular avantgarde rockband Henry Cow this might sound like heavy reading But once your through the academic framing of the book you ll find a highly interesting tale of a self conscious and idealistic rockband on a crash course with the music industry each other and with the world as a whole The world is a problem indeed and will continue to be so But it s important to try than not to and that is what you as the reader will bring with you in the end the importance to keep on pushing the boundaries of what a rockband can be Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman your through the academic framing of the book Grumpy Old Women you ll find a highly interesting tale of a self conscious and idealistic rockband on a crash course with the music industry each other and with the world as a whole The world is a problem indeed and will continue to be so But it s important to try than not to and that is what Trap Origin #5 you as the reader will bring with Northaven you in the end the importance to keep on pushing the boundaries of what a rockband can be

review Henry Cow Benjamin Piekut î 5 Summary Free read Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free î Benjamin Piekut In its open improvisations lapidary lyrics errant melodies and relentless pursuit of spontaneity the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits Its rotating personnel sprung from rock free jazz and orchestral worlds synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines and with this musical diversity came a mixed politics including Maoism com I was a little reluctant to read this book A music professor who is going to write a book about one of my favorite bands That is asking for trouble Henry Cow declared the world a problem mixed rock with free jazz and written orchestral music wonderful song based albums with singer Dagmar Krause endless political meetings remember the seventies En Passant created a uality record label Recommended Records created a music movement Rock in Opposition and then broke into many wonderful and interesting alliancesProfessor Benjamin Piekut did a wonderful job Drawing on 90 interviews with Henry Cow musicians and remarkable in a rock bio crew letters notebooks scores journals and meeting notes Piekut traces the group pursuit of a political and musical collectivismPersonally I find the descriptions of the creation of group improvisations a regular part of the HC concerts very interesting and educational Piekut has written an infectious book An interesting insight into the sometimes troubled lives of interesting musicians In the seventies a beacon for us ordinary mortalsAnd what a wonderful opportunity to play those beautiful records again

review Henry Cow

review Henry Cow Benjamin Piekut î 5 Summary Free read Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free î Benjamin Piekut Munism feminism and Italian Marxism In Henry Cow The World Is a Problem Benjamin Piekut tells the band’s story from its founding in Cambridge in 1968 and later affiliation with Virgin Records to its demise ten years later and analyzes its varied efforts to link aesthetics with politics Drawing on ninety interviews with Henry Cow musicians and crew letters notebooks Friends I admit I was struggling through the rather academic Introduction But have faith Once we meet the Cows the book chugs along merrily There s no shortage of hilarious vintage photos with just about everyone in hippy haircuts and outrageous and often illuminating war stories And I can t say it better than the author Dagmar Krause s material on the other hand is the kind of lunar voyage that reminds one how fortunate we are that a few record execs smoked dope in the late 1960s how else could this music have slipped through the cracksWe need a kickstarter to supply free dope to today s record execsThe music of Henry Cow and associates have been a major and formative part of my listening experiences So it s easy for me to forget that back in the late 60searly 70s they were young earnest English blokes trying to navigate the space between a Cambridge background and the changes and chaos in Europe There are lots of candid comments from the band esp Frith on personal relationships and stressful situations One little uote one of the cofounders says he joined a band to attract girls and the other to escape themI understand that if the book is going to appear under Duke University Press it would need that Afterword But I don t have to read all of it sorry