Luigi Nono, Dialectical Counterpoint to the Mind, For Magnetic Tape and Voices

Ilenia

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April 19, 2012, 10:09

LUIGI NONO: "Dialectical counterpoint for the mind, for magnetic tape and voices (1968), dedicated to Douglas Bravo, commander of the FLN-FALN of Venezuela (national armed liberation front).

I heard it once in a lecture but I can't find videos or music files anywhere... any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Martina

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April 20, 2012, 09:46

The composition was commissioned to Luigi Nono by RAI for participation in the 1968 Premio Italia. However, it was "censored" because the last episode (the fourth) was deemed offensive towards the U.S.A.

This is the censored text:

4. UNCLE SAM TELLS A TALE

Uncle Sam wants YOU nigger

you are a member of the best paid black mercenary army in the world

support white power

go on a trip all the way to Vietnam

you can earn yourself a medal

fight for freedom (in Vietnam)

receive perfect training in the art of massacring

other oppressed peoples

you cause too much trouble in your ghetto

uncle Sam wants you to die in Vietnam

the "whiteys" plan is to make you die in Vietnam

stay here and fight here for your dignity as men.

(uncle Sam wants YOU nigger manifesto distributed by the Black Women Enraged organization and the Harlem Progressive Labor Club)

Margherita1

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April 20, 2012, 10:56

I haven't found anything Ilenia, regarding what has been written I can add that the title of the piece is a paraphrase of the "Contrappunto bestiale alla mente" by the Bolognese madrigalist Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634)