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Lindsay Cooper digital archive

Collection — Container: electronic records

Identifier: 8578

Scope and content

This collection contains digitized copies of Lindsay Cooper's musical scores, lyric sheets, sketches, manuscripts, and photographs. The collection also includes 30 years of live recordings, including unmastered versions of her many commercial albums and live recordings from all over the world with bands such as Henry Cow, The Feminist Improvising Group, The Film Music Orchestra, Comus, News From Babel and the Mike Westbrook Orchestra.

Dates

1969-2002.

Creator

Cooper, Lindsay (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Lindsay Cooper (1951-2013) was an English composer and bassoon and oboe player who easily traversed the worlds of free improvisation, jazz, rock, and contemporary composition. A longtime member of the British band Henry Cow (1974-1978), she was also a founding member of the Feminist Improvising Group (1977-1982) and News from Babel (1983-86), and played for many years in Mike Westbrook's big band. As a composer, she wrote soundtracks for several figures in the late 1970s feminist film movement in London, including Sally Potter and Sue Clayton.