On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Angelus, I believe you're the one who posted about Cornelius Cardew. In
> the Wikipedia article on him, it says: "In 1974, he published a book
> entitled Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, which denounced, in Maoist
> self-critical style, his own involvement with Stockhausen and the Western
> avant-garde tradition." Any idea how Stockhausen serves imperialism?
Believe it or not, the entire book is on the net:
http://www.ubu.com/historical/cardew/cardew_stockhausen.pdf
The talk by the same name that the book grew out of starts on p. 47.
The answer seems to be S serves I by distracting people from the horrors of Vietnam into thinking there might be some beauty in the world. That Pig!
Michael