A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of “curators” laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists – but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
326 pages (PDF), transcript, 2020
ISBN 978-3-8394-5243-1
A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of “curators” laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists – but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
326 pages, transcript, 2020
ISBN 978-3-8376-5243-7
In einer Zeit, in der Aktivität und Leistung alles bedeuten, da power naps und polyphasischer Schlaf die Nachtruhe optimieren sollen, Klartraumtechniken Ressourcen zur Verbesserung körperlicher und geistiger Effizienz kolonisieren, lässt sich – so scheint es – für die Müdigkeit kaum noch argumentieren. Das Sensorium für ihre Fülle ist durch all den Optimierungsdruck verkümmert. Der Imperativ des 24/7 hat es anästhesiert. Dabei geht es heute, so der Ansatz des vorliegenden Buches, mehr denn je darum, ihre besondere Aisthetik wiederzuentdecken, den Sinn für die ihr eigenen Zwischenzustände des Ungeformten und Nichtkategorisierbaren zu wecken.
Reihe Denkt Kunst
144 Seiten (PDF), Diaphanes, 2018
ISBN 978-3-0358-0083-8
Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur 2000-2015
Welche Themen und Schauplätze werden von deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern seit 2000 in Szene gesetzt und diskutiert? Wie korrespondiert die aktuelle Gegenwartsliteratur mit dem Zeitgeschehen und gesellschaftlichen Diskursen? Die 21 Beiträge des Bandes erkunden den literarischen Umgang mit politischen und historischen Krisen, sie befragen interkulturelle Bezüge und analysieren die literarische Gestaltung der neuen Mehrsprachigkeit, wobei insbesondere innovative Schreibverfahren und Autorschaftsmodelle im Fokus stehen. Besprochen werden zudem neue Formen der Literaturvermittlung.
264 Seiten, Fink, 2017
ISBN 978-3-7705-5918-3
The figure of the ‘other’ is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we communicate is to interact with others—to talk to another, to share our thoughts and insights with them, or to respond to their needs and requests. No matter how it is structured or conceptualized, communication is involved with addressing the other and dealing with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions of otherness or alterity. But who or what can be other? Who or what can be the subject of communication? Is the other always and only another human? Or can the other in these communicative interactions be otherwise? This book is about others (and other kinds of others). It concerns the current position and status of the other in the face of technological innovations that can, in one way or another distort, mask, or even deface the other. Ten innovative essays, written by an international team of experts, individually and in collaboration with each other, seek to diagnose the current situation with otherness, devise innovative solutions to the questions of alterity, and provide insight for students, teachers and researchers trying to make sense of the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
238 pages (PDF), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
ISBN 978-1-783-48871-1
