Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five Boston Composers--Tom Delio, piano; Pozzi Escott, guitar; Jim Mann; flute and clarinet; Harry Chalmiers, guitar; and Shirish Korde, trombone; Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass...
Necessarily, such a self-conscious form as punk will involve parody; as for the doomed Adrian Leverkuhn of Mann's Doctor Faustus, everything is a parody, of previous forms or even of itself. Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary musical forms. The Pistols start parodying right off on side two with a symphonic version of "God Save the Queen," as much a parody of themselves as of art rock. A bizarre disco medley of "Anarchy in the U. K.," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant...
Mere parody, though, can never be satisfying. When, in Mann's phrase, "Art becomes critique," the self-consciousness of parody can be crippling and destructive. Perhaps the goal should be to combine a parodic sense with an underlying faith in the essential form and a dose of the new and vital. The Sex Pistols achieve this delicate balance on side two in their reclamation of "Johnny B. Goode" and Boston local Jonathan Richman's "Road Runner." Sure to be a legend of rock and roll, this track alone justifies the rather extravagant price which decorates the album jacket. Opening with...
Captain John Cochrane had tied it for the Crimson, drilling a superb George Hughes pass past Mann from twenty feet out, finishing off three-on-two break. Jack Hughes also assisted on the score, Cochrane's seventh of the season...
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