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    In rotation: Dinosaur L's "24 by 24." A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers & contributors are listening to right now... New York by way of Iowa composer Arthur Russell, who died in 1992, worked in an odd intersection of sounds when he started making music in the mid-1970s. A classically trained violinist who ran with Allen Ginsberg, Russell became obsessed with the nascent loft scene in the East Village, where DJs like David Mancuso, Tom Moulton and Nicky Siano were experimenting with disco

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg  /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/ was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he celebrated his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and harshly denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. This poem is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation. The poem, which was dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, opens:
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