Juli Eastman: Gay Guerrilla | OUPblog

Contents:

• GAY GUERRILLA (1979)
• GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC
• JULI EASTMAN: GAY GUERRILLA
• JULI EASTMAN/GAY GUERILLA
• JULI EASTMAN ~ EVIL N—–, GAY GUERRILLA (LIVE)
• GAY GUERRILLA
• GAY GUERRILLAJULI EASTMAN1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORTHIS SONG IS AN STMENTALEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO WROTE “GAY GUERRILLA” BY JULI EASTMAN?CREDSWRTEN BYJULI EASTMANTAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• GAY GUERRILLA

GAY GUERRILLA (1979)

Composer NoteFrom Juli Eastman’s remarks to the dience before the premier of Crazy Nigger, Evil Nigger, and Gay Guerrilla January 1980 durg his poser-rincy at Northwtern Universy: “Now the reason I e Gay Guerrilla — G U E R R I L L A, that one — is bee the nam — let me put a ltle subsystem here — the nam: eher I glorify them or they glorify me. And the se of guerrilla: that glorifi gay — that is to say, there aren’t many gay guerrillas. I don’t feel that ‘gaydom’ has — do have — that strength, so therefore, I e that word the hop that they will.

You see, I feel that — at this pot, I don’t feel that gay guerrillas n really match wh ‘Afghani’ guerrillas or ‘PLO’ guerrillas, but let hope the future that they might, you see.

GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC

So, therefore, that is the reason that I e gay guerrilla, hop that I might be one, if lled upon to be one. When my ey crossed the spe of Gay Guerrilla; Juli Eastman and His Mic, I knew that my rearch was over. Perhaps the reason why Juli Eastman didn’t bee mercially succsful like his peers was due to his urage to e mic to tell the tribulatns of beg a gay Ao-Amerin man durg the Civil Rights Movement era.

Homosexualy and Ao-Amerins’ stggl were topics that ma the ncert hall dience too unfortable at that time, and perhaps they still do. Followed by the succs of Unjt Malaise, and the wispread tert that was brought to Eastman’s name, Renée Leve Packer and Mary Jane Leach eded Gay Guerrilla, published 2015 by Universy of Rochter Prs.

JULI EASTMAN: GAY GUERRILLA

Among the thors clud Gay Guerilla, there are many micians who knew and llaborated wh Juli Eastman and some scholars who have recently looked to the works of Juli Eastman. Some of Eastman’s most famo posns such as “Stay On It, ” “Crazy Nigger, ” “Evil Nigger, ” and “Gay Guerrilla, ” are over 20 mut long (“Crazy Nigger” is almost one hour).

Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Micby Renée Leve Packer (Edor), Mary Jane Leach (Edor).

Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic on JSTOR.

JULI EASTMAN/GAY GUERILLA

To be proudly gay as a poser the 1970s was brave enough; to be Black and gay that world, even more so.

The tails of his life the years right after llege are sketchier acrdg to Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and his Mic, a 2015 book -eded by Renée Leve Packer and Mary Jane Leach, and still the most thorative text on the poser. His personal motto, which he scribed to the Buffalo Eveng News 1976, was "to be what I am to the fullt: Black to the fullt, a mician to the fullt, and a homosexual to the fullt.

Even to prenters and dienc today, the ntrast between the sound of the works and their nam — Crazy Nigger, Dirty Nigger, Evil Nigger, Nigger Faggot, Gay Guerrilla — is nearly as jarrg as the nam themselv. " By wrappg himself stereotyped personae, he hoped to raise qutns about racism, homophobia and the power of words to provoke.

JULI EASTMAN ~ EVIL N—–, GAY GUERRILLA (LIVE)

" In an say that appears Gay Guerilla, poser and cric Kyle Gann wr that the works stand apart om the mimalist movement: "At the time, his mic seemed an excg and eccentric part of what was gog on, but lookg back today, his piec sound particularly distctive, as though he had not only absorbed mimalism, but uld see to s future.

"He was the 'crazy nigger' and the 'gay guerrilla. “What I am tryg to achieve is to be what I am to the fullt—Black to the fullt, a mician to the fullt, and a homosexual to the fullt. Ain-Amerin volist Gwendol Sims was also a member of the Creative Associat, and Hisama also pots to Charl Mg, Archie Shepp, and Charl Gayle as active performers and teachers Buffalo at the time.

After a seri of personal profsnal ups and downs—tenuo faculty appotments, -director of Brooklyn Philharmonic Communy Concert seri wh Talib Hakim and Tania León, ser fancial set backs and dg-related addictns, tourg volist wh Meredh Monk—Eastman posed Gay Guerrilla, and the explicly tled work, “Nigger Seri, ” cludg Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, Dirty Nigger, and Nigger Faggot, the late 1970s and early 80s. And the se of guerrilla, that glorifi gay…A guerrilla is someone who any se is sacrificg his life for a pot of view. ” —Eastman on Gay Guerrilla.

GAY GUERRILLA

Sre to Juli Eastman’s Gay Guerilla (1979); Duplited wh permissn om Mary Jane Leach ().

Maybe was the provotive tl themselv, the racial, pal, or sexualy topics that Eastman addrsed head on, or his posn as an Ain Amerin (self-intified) homosexual wh the “uptown” and “downtown” scen of experimentalism that have led to Eastman’s low-equency stat ntemporary mic and art circl. Such a velopment of this queered athetic might get closer to terrogatg and fdg new ways to improvise through the difficult topics of homophobia, palism, and racism that Eastman himself alt wh throughout his life.

GAY GUERRILLAJULI EASTMAN1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORTHIS SONG IS AN STMENTALEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO WROTE “GAY GUERRILLA” BY JULI EASTMAN?CREDSWRTEN BYJULI EASTMANTAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

As he himself noted, “therefore that is the reason I e ‘gay guerrilla, ’ hop that I might be one if lled upon to be one. ” If we are lled upon to be “gay guerrillas” our work, art makg, and livg, maybe Eastman will help get there a b quicker.

GAY GUERRILLA

While engagg passnately and actively avant-gar mil circl of his day, Eastman faced racist and homophobic opposn throughout his reer. Notably, Eastman faced aggrsive censorship on the ocsn of a 1980 performance at Northwtern Universy (Evanston, IL) when the tl of his posns Crazy Nigger (1978), Evil Nigger (1979) and Gay Guerrilla (1979) were lerally redacted om ncert programs, promptg an eloquent pre-ncert statement prented by Eastman prr to the ncert.

Intertgly enough, the two piec that have been the subject of most new releas (whether as reissu or new terpretatns) are among his most explicly ant: “Evil N—–” and “Gay Guerrilla”. “Gay Guerrilla” is very siar that regard. When Eastman premiered Gay Guerrilla at his January 1980 Northwtern ncert, he explaed s tle as well:.

And the se of 'guerrilla, ' that glorifi 'gay. So therefore that is the reason that I e 'gay guerrilla, ' hop that I might be one if lled upon to be one.