Canet, Marie - Palestine, First Name Charlemagne

Marie Canet. Palestine, First Name Charlemagne - Meshugga Land. Les Presses Du Reel, 2017. Softcover.  96 pages. English text. New.  A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice-spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism-together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.   Born Chaïm Moshe Palestine in Brooklyn, 1947, Charlemagne Palestine joined as a child the Stanley Sapir Jewish choir to lower the effects of his stuttering through singing. Raised in a family from Odessa, he was torn between a traditional spiritual education and his interest for all artistic experimental forms. His practice of singing, carillon bells, organ and piano allowed him to develop, as early as the 1970s, a physical and vibratory relation to space. His performative experi