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Mac Low, Jackson

LC control no.n 79075613
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3563.A31875
Personal name headingMac Low, Jackson
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Variant(s)Maclow, Jackson
Other standard no.0000000081599211
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1922-09-12
Death date2004-12-08
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityArt Music Performance art Poetry Anarchism Civil rights
Profession or occupationPoets Performance artists Composers Dramatists
Found inAuthor's 22 light poems, 1968.
His Bloomsday, c1984: CIP t.p. (Jackson Mac Low) data sheet (b. 9-13-22)
Cage, J. Music for The marrying maiden, c1960: t.p. (Jackson Maclow)
New York times, Dec. 10, 2004 (Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet and composer; d. Dec. 8, 2004, Manhattan; b. Sept. 12, 1922, Chicago)
Wikipedia, January 15, 2014 (Jackson Mac Low; born September 12, 1922; died December 8, 2004; an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods; an early affiliate of Fluxus and stylistic progenitor of the Language poets)
Mac Low, Jackson. The twin plays, 2007: page 15 (Jackson Mac Low was born in Chicago, September 12th, 1922, studied music there from the age of 4, began composing music and poetry at 15, and did work in philosophy and comparative literature at the University oif Chicago from 1939 to 1943. After moving to New York, he continued his musical studies, worked at various jobs, co-edited an anarchist magazine, and obtained a B.A. in Greek at Brooklyn College in 1958; In addition to music, poems, plays, and simultaneities, he has done paintings, collages, and constructions, and remains active in the peace, civil rights, and anarchist movements)
Associated languageeng