Free Jazz Communism

Rab-Rab 2022 ISBN 9789526938905 Acqn 33033

Pb 13x20cm 242pp ills £20

Apart from the theoretical and historical overview by its editors Sezgin Boynik and Taneli
Viitahuhta, the book includes testimonies of the collective and international spirit of the 1962
Youth Festival, translated documents from the Finnish press, a new interview with Archie Shepp,
commissioned text by Jeff Schwartz on the historical context of political engagement of free jazz
musicians, and reproduction of three hard-to-find texts by Shepp. The new edition of Free Jazz
Communism also includes the reprint of the entire script of Archie Shepp's play The Communist
(Junebug Graduates Tonight: A Jazz Allegory).

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From Scratch - Albanian Summer Picaresque
Rab-Rab 2022 ISBN 9799526938974 Acqn 33092
Pb 19x28cm 144pp col ills £21

'From Scratch is a story of Albanian Summer': An Entertainment, an LP album released by

Practical Music in London in 1984. The album was composed by Dave Smith-English
experimental composer and musician, figure of the British minimalist scene, explorer of Javanese
and Albanian musical traditions with the English Gamelan Orchestra and Liria which he co-
founded, and a member of The Scratch Orchestra (with Brian Eno, Cornelius Cardew, John
Tilbury, Keith Rowe, Michael Nyman, Michael Parsons, etc.)-, and performed by Janet
Sherbourne and Jan Steele, improvised and classical musicians.

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The Marketplace of Art / Commentary (2 volumes)
Rab-Rab 2022 ISBN 9789526938981 Acqn 33091
Pb 12x21cm 208pp £27.50

Acclaimed as one of the leading theoreticians of avant-garde art and architecture between the
two world wars, Teige's more political writings still remain to be discovered. Written in 1936, in the
context of the rising conservative right-wing culture, and during the intense debates between the
avant-garde artists and the Communist Party, The Marketplace of Art is a response to the
capitulation of contemporary art to fascist and Stalinist currents. Teige discusses this reaction as
something deeply inscribed into the culture of the bourgeoisie, which he claims is a culture "not
able to create and inspire any other kind of art besides a hollow and pompous academism or
sentimental kitsch."

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Iliazd - Le degre 41 sinapise - Lecture on Pearl Disease Paris 1922
Rab-Rab 2022 ISBN 9789526938967 Acqn 33093
Pb 11x17cm 48pp £14

This publication presents Zdanevich's talk Le degre 41 sinapise on the "pearl disease" in
language, reporting on the potential of zaum to destroy not only social and national barriers, but
also the ones dividing humans and animals. This first English translation of the talk from 1922 is
introduced together with a short note by Marzio Marzaduri, an Italian scholar who first published
the sinapise lecture from the manuscript in its original Russian. The volume also includes an
experimental essay by Elvin Brandhi, a Welsh musician who sent her text from Istanbul, while on
a long layover on the way to Beirut on February 22nd 2022, exactly one hundred years on from
the date Zdanevich initially gave the lecture.

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