STEVEN TAYLOR is a musician, poet and ethnomusicologist; for twenty years, he was Allen Ginsberg's primary musical collaborator. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Fugs, a seminal poetry/rock group. He is Chair of the Department of Writing and Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado.
"A sort of Das Kapital and Odyssey of anarcho-punk
hardcore--theory, praxis, and plenty of head-banging.
Ethnomusicologically speaking, a bloody masterpiece."--Hakim Bey,
author of T.A.Z., the Temporary Autonomous Zone
"Steve Taylor brings to his music a steely discipline, brilliance
and high-speed creativity delivered with fantastic precision and
verve. He has brought that same panoply of skills to his scholarly
yet accessible history of his experiences touring and creating with
the band, The False Prophets. It's more than his own experiences,
of course. Taylor reaches out through history for a complicated and
very interesting examination of a phenomenon as old as the Poetics
of Aristotle touring, performing, writing tunes and achieving
community through living and sharing the life of a band."--Edward
Sanders is the co-founder of the Fugs, the author of The Family (on
the Manson group)
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