Thomas Harrison: 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (1996)

The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attention to the life and work of Carlo Michelstaedter, he deftly portrays the reciprocal implications of different discourses—philosophy, literature, sociology, music, and painting. His beautifully balanced and deeply informed study provides a new, wider, and more ambitious definition of expressionism and shows the significance of this movement in shaping the artistic and intellectual mood of the age.

1910 probes the recurrent themes and obsessions in the work of intellectuals as diverse as Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Vasily Kandinsky, Georg Lukàcs, Georg Simmel, Dino Campana, and Arnold Schoenberg. Together with Michelstaedter, who committed suicide in 1910 at the age of 23, these thinkers shared the essential concerns of expressionism: a sense of irresolvable conflict in human existence, the philosophical status of death, and a quest for the nature of human subjectivity. Expressionism, Harrison argues provocatively, was a last, desperate attempt by the intelligentsia to defend some of the most venerable assumptions of European culture. This ideological desperation, he claims, was more than a spiritual prelude to World War I: it was an unheeded, prophetic critique.

Publisher University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 0520200438, 9780520200432
264 pages

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Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

“This first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life. Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Johansen, Dee Dee Ramone, Nico, Patti Smith, Malcolm McLaren, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to tell the outrageous that bring the punk era to life. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties mainstream metalmania, the phenomenon that was known as punk is analyzed, criticized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there, and who made it happen. Please Kill Me reads like a fast-paced novel, but the energy it celebrates and the tragedies it contains are all too achingly human, and all too real.”

Publisher Grove Press, New York, 1996
ISBN 0802115888
452 pages

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Seismograf/DMT contemporary art music magazine (2011–) [Danish]

Seismograf/DMT er et redaktionelt uafhængigt tidsskrift, der omhandler den nyeste kunst i lyddomænet og dens skabere – eksperimentel kunstmusik, lydkunst, performance, multimedia, interaktion og field recordings.

Tidsskriftet er en fusion af Dansk Musik Tidsskrift, Autograf og Seismograf, og tegner dermed Danmarks eneste platform fuldkommen dedikeret feltet ny kunstmusik og lydkunst.

Fra 2013 vil tidsskriftet endvidere publicere artikler, der er peer reviewed.

Sanne Krogh Groth er chefredaktør for tidsskriftet, der er støttet af Kunststyrelsens Musikudvalg og Dansk Komponistforening.

Publikationer: Japansk Lydkunst; Avantgarde i børnehøjde; Det du lysnar på hörs i P2; ’Touch Me! Fysisk – emotinelt – sensuelt’: Kritik af SPOR festival 2011; Musikhistorier; Urbanitet, lyd og kunst; Komponiststemmer; Instrumentmagere; Retro-utopier: Reportage fra CTM og Transmediale, 2013; Radio Radio Radio

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