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Henry Cow : The World Is a Problem
Henry Cow - Book - by Benjamin Piekut
(2019)
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, 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.
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