Conelius Cardew's Revolutionary Music

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Produced by: 
KBOO
Air date: 
Mon, 05/16/2011 - 12:00am
Cornelius Cardew's revolutionary music: samples and conversation

 Cornelius Cardew was an English avant-gaarde composer who turned his talents to revolutionary purposes in the 1970s.  Brad Duncan selected some tracks to play on this show and discusses Cardew's  music and place in radical politics in conversation with Bill Resnick.  The tracks you hear are "Lords of Labour", "Octet '61 for Jasper Johns", and "Song for the British Working Class."

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