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Bob Ostertag - Creative Life, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2024

Creative Life

Music, Politics, People, and Machines

Av Bob Ostertag

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Beskrivning
In this eloquent and passionate volume, Bob Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. In terrain ranging from the guerrilla underground in El Salvador''s civil war to the drag queen underground in San Francisco and New York, these essays combine journalism and autobiography to explore fundamental questions of what art is and what role it can occupy in a violent and fragmented world, a world in which daily events compromise the universality toward which art strives.

Drawing on his intimate engagement with political conflict in Latin America and the Balkans, Ostertag identifies an art of "insurgent politics" that struggles to expand the parameters of the physical and social world. He also discusses his innovative collaborations with major modern performers, filmmakers, and artists around the world. Part memoir, part journalism, and part aesthetic manifesto, Creative Life is a dazzling set of writings from a musical artist who has worked on the cutting edge of new music for thirty years.

Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-18
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9780252056093
  • Förlag: University of Illinois Press
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Bob Ostertag--composer, performer, historian, instrument builder, journalist, and activist--is a professor of technocultural studies and music at the University of California at Davis and the author of People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements.

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"The most lucid philosophical work on music, culture and politics since Steve Reich's Writings on Music."--The Wire "A humble yet powerful reminder of the importance of being true to your ethics and clear about your motivations."--Fundamentally Sound"This unusual memoir, which takes the reader on an amazing odyssey that begins with Ostertag's life as a musician in 1978 New York and ends 30 years later in San Francisco with his writing a book to explain the creative life. . . . Recommended."--Choice

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