{"id":326,"date":"2010-07-15T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/07\/more_on_tuli_kupferberg_harvey\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:50","slug":"more_on_tuli_kupferberg_harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/more_on_tuli_kupferberg_harvey.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Tuli Kupferberg &#038; Harvey Pekar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuli Kupferberg, the wispy hipster comic social critic of ol&#8217; boho downtown NYC who died at age 86 on Monday, will be buried with a public service Saturday 7\/17 at St. Mark&#8217;s Church in the East Village. According to his family, &#8220;There will be no religious element . . Fugs Coby Batty, Steve Taylor and Ed Sanders will be the main speakers, after which anyone who cants can talk, sing, recite poetry, or whatever they like.&#8221; This seems eminently sensible for a man who preached a kind of wised-up utopian socialism in goofy &#8220;parasongs&#8221; with his band the Fugs and with stick-figure cartoons, as he detailed at some length in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/anti-heroes_of_jazz-beyond-jaz.html\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>. My 2004 article which drew on that interview has more on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fugs-Final-CD-Part\/dp\/B00009WVSP\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)<\/a><\/i>, background on the tumultuous &#8217;60s (for those who need it) and lets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fug-You-Informal-Bookstore-Counterculture\/dp\/0306818884\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Ed Sanders have his say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also: My error to characterize<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2010\/07\/cleveland_comic-book_legend_ha.html\"> Harvey Pekar<\/a>, the comic-book writer and music journalist who died at age 70, also on Monday, as essentially a trad-jazz fan (though there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that). Yes, he collected 78 rpm records, but he also listened hard to and wrote seriously about mid &#8217;60s Miles Davis, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, and other improv far from the music&#8217;s origins. A sampling of his articles is <a href=\"http:\/\/jazztimes.com\/community\/profiles\/24-harvey-pekar?page=2\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/daily\/article.php?article=29820\">Wynton Marsalis alert!<\/a>). Doug Ramsey&#8217;s piece on Harvey at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/07\/harvey_pekar_jazz_critic.html\">Rifftides<\/a> is also rewarding.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuli Kupferberg, the wispy hipster comic social critic of ol&#8217; boho downtown NYC who died at age 86 on Monday, will be buried with a public service Saturday 7\/17 at St. Mark&#8217;s Church in the East Village. According to his family, &#8220;There will be no religious element . . Fugs Coby Batty, Steve Taylor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[905,884,913,883,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-ed-sanders","8":"tag-harvey-pekar","9":"tag-the-fugs-final-cd-part-1","10":"tag-tuli-kupferberg","11":"tag-wynton-marsalis","12":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":325,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/anti-heroes_of_jazz-beyond-jaz.html","url_meta":{"origin":326,"position":0},"title":"Anti-heroes of jazz-beyond-jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Fug Tuli Kupferberg and comic-book depressive\/trad jazz fan Harvey Pekar dying the same week thins the ranks of American refuseniks, those Bartleby-like individuals who didn't drop out of society so much as dive in by insisting on their contrarianism, right or wrong. 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