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Matt Stokes

Escapologist, magician and music-hall performer, Larry Barnes

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Matt Stokes's Cantata Profana

April 2015

"When artists bring underground musical subcultures into seemingly more legitimate spaces, whatever their intentions, those subcultures are easily reduced to the merely symbolic."