Cornelius Cardew
English avant-garde composer, experimental musician and political activist, co-founder of the Scratch Orchestra, known for works such as The Great Learning and for his graphic and experimental scores.
Books
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1. Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
A concise Marxist polemic contending that a leading avant-garde composer and his music operate as cultural instruments of Western imperialism, reinforcing elitist, bourgeois values through abstruse serialism and institutional ties. The pamphlet condemns this aesthetic as politically complicit and inaccessible to workers, urging that music be reoriented toward revolutionary, proletarian purposes. It situates musical form and practice within broader struggles over culture, power, and class.
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