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'The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde' edited by David W. Bernstein
The San Francisco
Tape Music Center
1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
Edited by David W. Bernstein
University of California Press/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 336 pp., $65
THERE was a time when the zeitgeist used to get bashed about...Tags: Marcel Duchamp, Music Theater, Theater, Ken Kesey, Electronics
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Girl Talk easily blends appealing samples
Chicago Tribune criticIn Girl Talk's world, anything is possible: The Carpenters jam with Metallica, Jay-Z collaborates with Radiohead, the Butthole Surfers pretend they're in "Flashdance." That's just a smattering of the hundreds of seemingly absurd recombinations conjured...Tags: George Harrison, Dance, Music, Popular Music, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Artist Jennifer Bornstein curates a show at the Hammer Museum
Special to The TimesJennifer Bornstein was a kid in a candy store -- with almost half a year to gorge herself. When Hammer Museum curator Allegra Pesenti asked Bornstein to rummage through the institution's huge collection of graphic work and put together a show of...Tags: Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, New York, Photography
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'Goodbye 20th Century' by David Browne
Special to The TimesJune 5, 2008 Sonic Youth roared to the front of the underground music scene in 1988 with "Daydream Nation," a double-LP still regarded as their masterpiece. Oozing with detuned guitars, hoarse spoken/sung/shouted vocals, near-abstract lyrics and...Tags: Teen-agers, The Simpsons, Los Angeles, Literature, Neil Young
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Mark Rothko, North Carolina, Paul Taylor, Death and Dying, Jack Kerouac
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Live: Chanticleer on 'Mission Road' in San Luis Obispo
Times Music CriticSAN LUIS OBISPO -- On a balmy evening here Thursday, the dozen men of Chanticleer, dressed in identical stylish dark suits, began a slow procession down the aisle of the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa mission, founded in 1772. It was a solemn, beautiful,...Tags: Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, Society, Ceremonies, Music Industry
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All he asks is: 'Try to like it'
Special to The TimesHELMUT Lachenmann's work is very strange, even by contemporary standards. This preeminent German composer shapes what are essentially noises -- taps, scrapes and rustlings, though made largely by conventional instruments -- into beautiful, even spiritual,...Tags: Lukas Foss, Christianity, Luigi Nono, Los Angeles, Protestant
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comRobert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist who produced some of his work at a small Long Island studio that has drawn formidable talent for decades, died Monday of heart failure, a representative said. He was 82. Rauschenberg's death was...Tags: Robert Rauschenberg, John F. Kennedy, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Jasper Johns
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Live music is making its grand jete back into world of top dance performance
Tribune arts criticNo one can detail the exact origins of dance in human history, but one aspect is certain. Someone nearby was undoubtedly performing some sort of musical accompaniment. Maybe only hands or sticks pounding on a makeshift drum. But dance and music are all...Tags: Heads of State, Chicago Symphony, Music Theater, Theater, Dance
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Letters to the editor
New directions for travel in L.A. Re "Ending gridlock," editorial, Jan. 5 Your editorial suggests that solo drivers should be charged a fee because the people causing the problem should pay the cost of its solution. The reality of life in Los Angeles is...Tags: Primaries, Santa Monica, Topanga, Political Candidates, The White House
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What I Saw at Art Basel: Day 2
South Florida Sun-SentinelWednesday, Dec. 5. Art Basel/Miami Beach Convention Center At the press center, there is a ridiculous women dressed in gold sandals and a yellow sundress. Here ensemb is not what makes her ridiculous. It is the fact that she is holding up a line of...Tags: David Hockney, Miami Beach, Marlborough, Sales, Florida
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I got an A in Phallus 101
Charlotte Allen is an editor at Beliefnet and the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus."THE "DIRTY DOZEN" list of "America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses" is out — and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with one-fourth of the ranked honors (or dishonors). Occidental College, an 1,...Tags: Anthropology, Pennsylvania, Eagle Rock, History, Ronald Reagan
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