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October 18, 1999
Laurie Anderson explores the philosophical seas of Moby Dick
Recordings and Reviews
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Don't let the deadpan voice, arch phrasing and avant-garde haircut fool you. Despite her forbidding performance-art reputation, Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace....
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Biography
Avant-garde performance artist Laurie Anderson had a British pop
hit with her 1981 recording "O Superman" (b/w "Walk the Dog"). Like
all her music, "O Superman" was just one aspect of a larger
multimedia oeuvre - in this case a seven-hour work in four parts
called United States, I-IV, which premiered at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music early in 1983. (A lavishly illustrated
book about the show was...
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