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...Radano's life has been a cross-section of many genres of music...
...case with most musicologists, I started out as a musician," says Radano, who was raised in an upper-class suburb of Manhattan that he describes as "claustrophobic"--at least for an electric guitar playing teenager with hair grown down his back...
...That was the uniform of individuality, wasn't it?" Radano laughs. "It was, of course, a time when such independence and resistance to orthodoxy was encouraged socially and even institutionally...
After the high school fascination with rock and some jazz, Radano became interested in experimental "new" music and avant-garde jazz when he went off to Rowan College in 1974, where he studied the intersections of jazz and art music and visited Manhattan often to work with many in-house ensembles that were blurring the lines between types of music...
Ultimately, Radano chose to study Anthony Braxton's career, not to present another jazz biography but to employ his life and work as a lens for observing the confusion and fragmentation of post-World War II American work, an endeavor that Radano is still best known for, Shelemay says...