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02945aam a2200397 i 4500 001 68DB8A06FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190315t20192019ncua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018057041 020 $a 1478004665 020 $a 9781478004660 020 $a 1478004053 020 $a 9781478004059 035 $a (OCoLC)1055830233 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d TJC $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a ML3916 P53 2019 100 1 $a Piekut, Benjamin, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Henry Cow : $b the world is a problem / $c Benjamin Piekut. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 494 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-478) and index. 505 0 $a You can't play this music at Cambridge (1968-73) -- Faust and the virgins (1973) -- Contentment is hopeless, unrest is progress (1974) -- Death to the individual : Slapp Happy (1974-75) -- Europa (1975- 76) -- The roads leading to Rome (1976-77) -- No joy anymore : London 1977 -- Henry Cow always had to be Henry Cow. 520 8 $a 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. The band's 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, communism, 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, 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 world.--Back cover. 610 20 $a Henry Cow (Musical group) 650 0 $a Avant-garde (Music) $z England $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Music $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Music $y 20th century $x Philosophy and aesthetics. 650 0 $a Rock musicians $v Interviews. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Piekut, Benjamin, 1975- $t Henry Cow. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 $z 9781478005513 $w (DLC) 2019014501 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804012658.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=68DB8A06FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search