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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence: The Voice in Mike Kelley’s Music
Mark Beasley
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
and with fear and trembling stand
ponder nothing earthly minded.
—“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,” Liturgy of St. James 1
I was mediated … I was Pop.
—Mike Kelley 2
Mike Kelley’s engagement and rupture with popular music began as a teen in Detroit, in the candle-lit gloom of the Catholic Church, with such polyphonic choral chants as the revised fifth-century liturgy “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.” A piece of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2012
Category
Music, Religion & Spirituality, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Poetry, Punk