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Gay Guerrilla - December 2015

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GAY GUERRILLA (1979)

Composer-performer Juli Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both fortable and unfortable the many worlds he habed: black, whe, gay, straight, clas... * gay guerrilla julius eastman and his music *

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GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC

Renée Leve Packer, -thor of Gay Guerrilla, giv an sight to the Juli Eastman’s enigmatic and trigug life and mic. * gay guerrilla julius eastman and his music *

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.

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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. 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.

GAY GUERRILLA

Review of Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic, ed. Renée Leve Packer and Mary Jane Leach (Universy of Rochter Prs); chapters by Gee E. Lewis, Renée Leve Packer, David Born, R. Nemo Hill, Kyle Gann, John Patrick Thomas, Mary * gay guerrilla julius eastman and his music *

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.

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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.

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).

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Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic: buy this book onle. Published by Boyll & Brewer. Edor: Leach, Mary Jane. Edor: Packer, Renee Leve. * gay guerrilla julius eastman and his music *

Schirmer, greatly facilatg accs to and performance of his mic; and, what’s more, the Universy of Rochter Prs has announced publitn of a paperback edn of Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic, a book of says, origally published 2015. The astonishg thg is that, as mic cric Kyle Gann wr his chapter for Gay Guerrilla, “Juli Eastman’s mic rose om the ad.

” This “polil aggrsivens” is evint the seri of multi-piano piec that Eastman wrote wh provotive tl such as Crazy Nigger, Evil Nigger, and Gay Guerrilla. She is ntributor and -edor wh Mary Jane Leach of Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic, which will be released paperback edn October 2018 by Universy of Rochter Prs.

Gay Guerrilla: Juli Eastman and His Mic Eded by Renée Leve Packer and Mary Jane Leach Paperback / 9781580469562 / £12. To be proudly gay as a poser the 1970s was brave enough; to be Black and gay that world, even more so.

RENéE LEVE PACKER & MARY JANE LEACH (EDS), GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC

Composer-performer Juli Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both fortable and unfortable the many worlds he habed: black, whe, gay, straight, classil mic, dis, amia, and downtown New York. His mic, sistent and straightforward, rists labels and seeth wh a tensn that ronat wh m * gay guerrilla julius eastman and his music *

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.

JULI EASTMAN: GAY GUERRILLA

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/GAY GUERILLA

" 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.

GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC

Composer-performer Juli Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both fortable and unfortable the many worlds he habed: black, whe, gay, straight, classil mic, dis, amia, and downtown New York. Eastman's provotive tl, cludg Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, asslt wh his obssns.

GAY GUERRILLA (1979)

Eastman tted lims wh his polil aggrsivens, as reflected legendary sndals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic terjectns, and the uproar over his tl at Northwtern Universy.

RENéE LEVE PACKER & MARY JANE LEACH (EDS), GAY GUERRILLA: JULI EASTMAN AND HIS MIC

In addn to analys of Eastman's mic, the says Gay Guerrilla provi background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landspe. The book prents an thentic portra of a notable Amerin artist thatis pellg readg for the general rear as well as scholars terted twentieth-century Amerin mic, Amerin studi, gay rights, and civil rights. Nemo HillJuli Eastman and the Conceptn of "Organic Mic" - Kyle GannJuli Eastman Sgg - John Patrick ThomasAn Accintal Milogist Pass the Torch - Mary Jane LeachA Flexible Mil Inty: Juli Eastman New York Cy, 1976-90 - Ryan DohoneyEvil Nigger: A Piece for Multiple Instments of the Same Type by Juli Eastman (1979), wh Performance Instctns by Joseph Kubera - David BornA Postmimalist Analysis of Juli Eastman's Crazy Nigger - Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek"The Piece Do Not Exist whout Juli": Still Stayg on Stay On It - Matthew MenzConnectg the Dots - Mary Jane LeachGay Guerrilla: A Mimalist Choralphantasie - Luciano ChsaAppendix: Juli Eastman Composns - Mary Jane LeachChronologySelected BiblgraphyList of ContributorsInx.

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