Music and materiality: Cardew and the musical politics of Marxism

Martyn Hudson

Music and materiality: Cardew and the musical politics of Marxism

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This article looks at the question of Marxism and music – specifically the journey of Cornelius Cardew from the Darmstadt avant-garde to his late Maoist works and the degeneration of his experimentalism in favour of a music which would ‘serve the people’s struggle’.

Original language	English
Journal	Eunomios
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Music and materiality: Cardew and the musical politics of Marxism

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