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TitleNothing Ever Happens In Buena Vista Park. | Faggots & Dawgs. |
AuthorAnderson, Chester
PublisherCommunication Company
PlaceSan Francisco
Year1967
Date 12/8/1967
Date 2
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CatalogCC-025b
CollectionSOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(T)
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CC-025b
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This side reproduces pages from a baroque flute sonata, with Anderson’s handwritten notes repeating the poem’s refrain: “Nothing ever happens in Buena Vista Park. Faggots & dogs. Sometimes I play the recorder there.” Anderson was known as a gay man in the Haight and as a recorder player, so the verso appears to connect the poem directly to his own practice of taking music into the park. The sonata is not just decorative backing; it suggests a performative dimension to the piece, with Buena Vista Park functioning at once as cruising ground, musical setting, and enchanted commons.
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