I've stumbled on a series of Folkways recordings from the Seventies titled "New American Music." It's mostly odd jazz and classical. The most interesting so far is a song by Frederic Rzewski, Apolitical Intellectuals. Milton Schlosser describes:
In one of the most dramatic and searing endings in art song, the singer sentences the apolitical intellectuals to a truly disgusting punishment—namely, being tortured by their own silence and shame.
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