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David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992)



Cross Country (1989)
  1. Cross Country 1, Part 1
  2. Cross Country 1, Part 2
  3. Cross Country 2, Part 1
  4. Cross Country 2, Part 2
  5. Cross Country 3, Part 1
  6. Cross Country 3, Part 2


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These audio files are courtesy of Reading Group. They have produced a beautiful 3xLP in a triple gate fold jacket featuring photos of Wojnarowicz by Marion Scemama, which can be purchased for a reasonable price here. While MP3s are adequate, please support the small lables making beautiful phsyical editions. They deserve our support.


NOTES

David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a writer and artist active in New York's Downtown scene in the 1970's and 80's. In the 1980's Wojnarowicz become one of the central figures in the AIDS struggle, as well as the target of homophobic censorship efforts by the American Family Association. Wojnarowicz kept written and cassette tape journals throughout his adult life. This three-disc vinyl release publishes for the first time three of Wojnarowicz's tape journals, documenting his thoughts, dreams, fears, and environment during two separate road trips he took to the American Southwest and West Coast in the first half of 1989. The original cassettes are archived as part of the Wojnarowicz Collection at Fales Special Collections and Library at New York University. Wojnarowicz died in New York in 1992.

Total runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes.


David Wojnarowicz and Doug Bressler - American Dreamtime
1984

From Tellus #5-6: Special Audio Visual Issue






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