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Creative Life:

Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
  • ISBN-13: 9780252034510
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Bob Ostertag
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2009
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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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.
Introduction; Art and Politics After September 11; Early Years; Central America; El Salvador, 1988: Absolute Diabolical Terror; Sooner or Later; Nicaragua 1990: Power Outage; Creative Politics; The Balkans; The Balkans 2000: Tour Journal; Program Notes for Yugoslavia Suite; Queers; Desert Boy on a Stick; Why I Work With Drag Queens; Music And Machines; Between Science and Garbage; Living Cinema Manifesto; Human Bodies, Computer Music; Why Computer Music Is So Awful; Conclusion; The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician; Appendix; Acknowledgements; Biography; Discography; Filmography; Books; Permissions
''Unique and engaging. Creative Life spins an intriguing narrative, builds a compelling argument about the nature of art and politics, and raises a stimulating set of questions for politically engaged art in an age of digital technologies.'' Jonathan Scott Lee, author of Jacques Lacan
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