Oberon (2015–)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · art
“Oberon is a periodical on art in the world. Oberon preferences a slower, less frenzied conversation around art and culture, giving writers and artists the chance to develop ideas, and readers the space to think. Each edition sees guest-edited sections of texts bridged by poetic sequences of images, supported by a comprehensive annotated index of images.”
Edited by Nick Garner
Publisher Das Platforms, Australia & Denmark, since 2015
ISSN 2205-5304
Issue 1: HTML (partial), PDF, PDF (Sep 2015)
Issue 2: HTML (partial), PDF, PDF (Apr 2016)
John F. Szwed: Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times of Sun Ra (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, jazz, music, music history
“Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole “Sonny” Blount (1914–1993), has been hailed as ‘one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz’ (New York Times) and as ‘the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy’ (Rolling Stone). Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his ‘Intergalactic Arkestra’ of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to be-bop, free jazz, fusion, and New Age music. This definitive biography reveals the life, philosophy, and musical growth of one of the twentieth century’s greatest avant-garde musicians.”
Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, 1997
ISBN 0679435891, 9780679435891
xviii+476+8 pages
Reviews: Brent Staples (NYT Books, 1997), Matthew Wuethrich (All About Jazz, 2003).
PDF (23 MB)
Comment (0)Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1968, 1970s, history, media, non-aligned movement, politics, protest, resistance
“Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the non-aligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.”
Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth
Publisher Berghahn Books, New York, 2011
Protest, Culture, and Society series, 7
ISBN 9780857451064, 0857451065
vi+347 pages
via publisher
Reviews: Caroline Hoefferle (J Study of Radicalism, 2012), Benoît Challand (Memory Studies, 2013), Rosemary H.T. O’Kane (Political Studies Rev, 2013), Sarah Žabić (Peace&Change, 2013), Matthias Dapprich (J Cold War Studies, 2014), Francis D. Raška (European Legacy, 2016).
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