Jazz was imagined as a literal revolutionary weapon

Evidence

A later poem, “Battle Report,” imagines a victorious musical uprising: An unnamed city is infiltrated by a thousand saxophones, besieged by a fleet of trumpets, overwhelmed by ten waves of trombones, five hundred bass men and one hundred drummers. A secret agent flashes the signal: “Attack: The sound of jazz./The city falls.” A new iteration of the Hipster General Strike: The real revolution was jazz. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 310

Categorization

• FICTION: The saxophone-infiltrated city reads as an immediately usable image for surreal or speculative fiction about art as insurgency.