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Music Farther Outside

Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic
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Radical Music in the United Kingdom during Brexit and the Pandemic examines the work of select composers, improvisers, and interpreters during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical contexts. Each of the artists whose lives and work are discussed in the book are, to use Duke Ellington's phrase, "beyond category." Some are located on the fringes of jazz and contemporary classical music, while others create improvised music: music created spontaneously without template. In addition to the diversity of music they produce, the subjects represent diversity in terms of gender, race, orientation, and geographic location. Bill Shoemaker discusses the work of the London Improvisers Orchestra, Philip Thomas, Pat Thomas, Richard Barrett, Elaine Mitchener, Rachel Musson, Corey Mwamba, Charlotte Keeffe, and the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra. The book will enhance the reader's understanding of radical music and its role in the evolving multiculturalism.
Bill Shoemaker has written about jazz and other forms of experimental music since 1978. His articles and reviews have appeared in jazz and music magazines in North America and Europe. He has also written booklet notes for over fifty recordings issued on CD by artists including Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, and Cecil Taylor. He has contributed articles to The Washington Post and The American Prospect, as well as concert program notes for The Library of Congress. Shoemaker is the author of Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams and founded the online quarterly Point of Departure.
Acknowledgments Preface: Music Farther Outside Chapter 1: London Improvisers Orchestra: The Endurance of a Strong Idea Chapter 2: Philip Thomas: The Aesthetics of Interpretation Chapter 3: Pat Thomas: Halim Chapter 4: Richard Barrett: Absolute Freedom and Absolute Discipline Chapter 5: Elaine Mitchener: Voice of Conscience Chapter 6: Rachel Musson: I Went This Way Chapter 7: Corey Mwamba: Accessing Freeness Chapter 8: Charlotte Keeffe: Right Here, Right Now Chapter 9: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: An Oddly Homely Avant Garde Epilogue: The Longest Night References Index
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