The American nation as a media construct – that is the core thesis of the Tape-beatles. Since the 1980s, the Iowa-based collective has been exploring this theme in collaged pieces featuring samples from film, television and music. During the Iraq War in 1990/91, there was ample opportunity to collect material; the following year, the Tape-beatles presented their adaptation of it: the hour-long composition The Grand Delusion. How people are being misled can be heard in the passage America Is Confident.
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