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Phillips, Andrea. 2009. 'No we can’t: consensual sovereignty and contemporary art'. In: Sommerakademie 2009: Internal Necessity. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 4 - 13 Aug 2009. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Cornelius Cardew, celebrated avantgarde composer turned co-founder of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), gave up on what he began to recognize as ʻbourgeoisʼ post-serialist abstraction and turned instead to the production of popular and lyrical songwriting, performing at rallies and demonstrations on the back of lorries with a group of equally committed musicians. The author of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism (1974) leaves contemporary accountants of his life and work in a quandary: how to recognize the opus of a man whose most important gesture, made explicitly through his work, was to give up?

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Dates:	Date Event August 2009 UNSPECIFIED
Event Location:	Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Date range:	4 - 13 Aug 2009
Item ID:	2403
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2009 16:01
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2012 12:52
URI:	http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2403

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