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Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992. By Tim Lawrence. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. - Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice. By Kyle Gann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2011

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4 Varèse was active in the downtown scene while he resided in the United States. He lived and worked in Greenwich Village and was active in the Eighth Street Artists Club.

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7 Lawrence expands on the theoretical underpinnings of his work in “Connecting with the Cosmic: Arthur Russell, Rhizomatic Musicianship, and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992,” Liminalities 3/3 (November 2007): 1–84.