Abstract
This essay situates the music of Frederic Rzewski within a wider political context from 1968 to the present, drawing on the political reality that emerged as the New Left. His music, quite often text-based works, engaged issues surrounding emancipatory freedoms, economic crisis, ecology, labor, the human condition, and revolutions. The essay will discuss specific works that suggested an intense engagement, a proximity to his ongoing creative relationship to New Left consciousness, ancient Greek Classics, Karl Marx, Hanns Eisler, American labor, time, and past musical traditions. His music is also further situated in relation to the aesthetic modernity of the postwar avant-garde.
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