Brakhage, Stan

Description

This recording is a collage of clips from various artists and art forms, including mostly poetry, films, song performances, opera, and jazz but also a few of science, news media, and religion. They swirl around such topics as life and death; conflict, coping, despair, and hope; individual and society; violence and love. Singer songwriters include, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs. Poets might be Allan Ginsberg and others not easily identifiable. Comedic live performance may be of Lenny Bruce. It was created by McCabe, and the theme is expressed in a song by Leonard Cohen: "Into this furnace I ask you now to venture, you whom I cannot betray." 00:00 Leonard Cohen's song of "The Old Revolution" begins the sound collage 01:35:10 End

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University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries

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