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An Insider's Look At Outsider Musicians

“Great and Mighty Things” are being seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That’s the title of a highly unorthodox exhibition of self-taught or outsider art: works by people unschooled, unfiltered, and unmediated by outside aesthetics, but created out of a pure inner need.

But don't think that outsider artists are confined to the idiosyncratic paintings, drawings and sculptures that  can be seen at the museum through June. The Philadelphia Inquirer's David Patrick Stearns hears outsider composers everywhere, even in the insider realms of Princeton University.

http://youtu.be/9Tl_KD7vOyc

OutsiderMusicDPSLF.mp3
Listen to an extended version of David Patrick Stearns' exploration of outsider musicians.