The Mekons and Kathy Acker

The Mekons and Kathy Acker

Genres: spoken word, punk, collaboration, experimental

About The Mekons and Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (Karen Alexander) (18 April 1947 - 30 November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation[citation needed], she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography. The Mekons are a British rock band. Formed in the late 1970s, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands. Album: 1996 - Pussy, King of the Pirates Mekons & Kathy Live at Museum of Contemporary Art on September 20, 1997 Free download: http://www.archive.org/details/mek1997-09-20late.shnf Mekons & Kathy Live at Museum of Contemporary Art (late show) on September 20, 1997 Free download: http://www.archive.org/details/mek1997-09-20.shnf

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