Guns

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Annotation

From Discogs:
Two tracks edited from a 1989 New American Radio commissioned work originally 26:19 in length, credited to Don Joyce and Negativland ...

Several dialogue ("Hey Pa, look!"; "Bam-ba-ba-bam-bam!") and music samples (the haunting harmonica theme) are taken from the Sergio Leone 1968 film "Once Upon A Time In The West."

From New American Radio:

Don Joyce and Negativland: Guns! (1989)
A dense, pulsing “action song,” whose verses deal with America’s intimate relationship with firearms: “The gun and the Bible carved this nation out of the wilderness,” a man exclaims. A tradition unfolds that links the voices of the past as we know them through television cowboy movies and gangster films, to the modern Annie-Get-Your-Gun, the business woman of the ‘eighties with her handy sub-machine gun. An evolving patchwork of movie excerpts and TV ads, statements and information about guns, and of certain phrases repeated like bullets.
Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO.

See Also:
https://uglyradio.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/don-joyce-and-negativland-guns/
http://www.ubu.com/sound/joyce_don.html
https://uglyradio.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/don-joyce-and-negativland/
http://www.somewhere.org/work_excerpts/joyce/media/script.htm
http://www.somewhere.org/work_excerpts/joyce/main.htm

Annotation last modified on 2020-07-02 19:47 UTC.

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1Then
38:08
2Now
38:37

Credits

Release

download for free:http://negativland.com/audio.html [info] (ended)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/219250 [info]
ASIN:US: B000000M70 [info]
stream for free:http://www.ubu.com/sound/joyce_don.html [info]
show notes:http://www.somewhere.org/work_excerpts/joyce/media/script.htm [info]