Kantrimiusik, which the composer describes as a "pastorale for voices and instruments," is full of the sly subversiveness typical of many of Kagel's works. This is obviously full-blown modernism, bustling with wacky post-Ivesian juxtapositions and disjunctions, but for the listener with a certain sensibility and an appreciation for the absurd, it's immensely entertaining, unselfconsciously exuberant, and bubbling over with benevolent mirth. The premise of the 1975 piece, whose title, Kantrimiusik, must be a fabricated ...
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Kantrimiusik, which the composer describes as a "pastorale for voices and instruments," is full of the sly subversiveness typical of many of Kagel's works. This is obviously full-blown modernism, bustling with wacky post-Ivesian juxtapositions and disjunctions, but for the listener with a certain sensibility and an appreciation for the absurd, it's immensely entertaining, unselfconsciously exuberant, and bubbling over with benevolent mirth. The premise of the 1975 piece, whose title, Kantrimiusik, must be a fabricated homonym for countrymusic, plays both with the pastoral motif that has beguiled composers for ages, and the expanding commercial promotion of world folk music as popular entertainment. Kagel doesn't use any authentic folk material, but his faux-folk is hilarious, often overlaid with sounds like the twittering of birds, cowbells, bleating sheep, and summer rainstorms, with shameless accompaniments played on instruments like banjo, harmonica, ukulele, and ensembles like a beer-hall band. The...
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