Tag: Gertrude Stein
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I May Have More Affection for Gertrude Stein than I am Willing to Admit. Thoughts on “The Making of Americans”.
I lugged “The Making of Americans” halfway around the world, on flights to and from here in Louisiana to The Netherlands, where I attended Roadburn (a metal fest). A lot of people commented on its sheer bulk. At 1022 pages (plus a couple of introductions), its a chunky book. People who watched me bring it…
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On Gertrude Stein, the NFL, Bad Bunny, and the Avant-Garde. Goddamn that’s a Title, Gonna Reel them the Fuck in with this One.
I originally wrote this as a set of Instagram stories, published on the same day as the Super Bowl, which I watched with a kind of detached amusement, as I cared about neither team. I did care about the silly “halftime show” battle between the NFL and some right wing dingus organization I will not…
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Milton Babbit/Gertrude Stein/”The Making of Americans”/”The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
Milton Babbitt was a composer who is probably more famous for writing an essay called “Who Cares if you Listen?” than for any of his actual compositions. It’s not particularly surprising, if you sit and listen to one of them. Babbitt, for quite a bit of his career as a composer, was fond of ‘serialism’.…
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