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The Late Tradition in Culture
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Voices
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October 1, 2007
- Author:
- Van Buren, Tom
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Last spring, I was invited to present a lecture about the late style of John Coltrane during a session of an interdisciplinary seminar at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The seminar was focused on the idea of late style, as discussed in theorist Edward Said's posthumous book of the same ride, which dealt with mostly classical composers and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers of the western cultural tradition. The idea of late style is to study the texts in a given artist's work at a point late in life-but not necessarily when the artist is advanced in age-when the artist has somehow burst the boundaries of his or her fame. Such artists either redefine the ...