david bowie | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Mon, 08 Apr 2024 02:18:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Cutting Up https://www.thesmartset.com/cutting-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cutting-up https://www.thesmartset.com/cutting-up/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64328 “A friend, Brion Gysin, an American poet and painter, who has lived in Europe for thirty years, was, as far as I know, the first to create cut-ups. His cut-up poem, Minutes to Go, was broadcast by the BBC and later published in a pamphlet. I was in Paris in the summer of 1960; this […]

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