grgr: kazoo //:: v & col49 connection

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 this week the post brought j. kerry grant's "a companion to the crying of lot  
 49" into the house. lots of posthorns inside & on the front cover ... skimming 
 through the pages i found an interesting note on the kazoo motif. those of you 
 having read v and col49 recently will not be surprised, but i did not have this 
 in memory anymore & it might be of interest to some others as well.

 "(today she came through the bead-curtained entrance around bar four of the 
 fort wayne settecento ensemble's variorum recording of the vivaldi kazoo 
 concerto, boyd beaver, soloist)" (col49, p. 6, picador edition) 

  "cowart reminds us that the concerto surfaces in v., where profane meets a 
  'musicologist who had devoted his life to finding the lost vivaldi kazoo 
  concerto' (art of allusion 79), evidently with some success." (grant, p. 12)

  from gr i don't remember a vivaldi reference in this context. & here, where 
  the kazoo serves as an explicit device of dissidence, it wouldn't fit that  
  well. but in v & col49 trp is just 'deconstructing' the cultural order of   
  things by smuggling in the kazoo into a high culture frame, ascribing to it   
  "cultural capital" (bourdieu) it actually does not possess. what could be more 
  "mainstream highbrow" than vivaldi? now and then pynchon is probably still 
  laughing, imagining readers who believe that there really is such a concerto. 

  beep-beep: zoyd zealer