Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life by Kim-Cohen, Seth

Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798765101322)

Author: Seth Kim-Cohen
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life by Kim-Cohen, Seth

Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life

$26.95
Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life by Kim-Cohen, Seth

Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life

$26.95
Format: Paperback
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No Boomer-esque celebration of the "music that defined an era," Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life is instead a deeply critical analysis of rock and roll as a chaotic, caterwauling project to upend the foundational presumptions of postwar values. What we have here is the closest thing yet to a unified field theory of rock and roll. In seminal performances, films, and recordings, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols disrupt the implicit ontologies of modernism and late-stage capitalism. With its comrades, conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism, rock and roll strips back the linoleum surface of modern life to reveal a feral sensibility unwilling to be boxed up for clean consumption.

Author: Seth Kim-Cohen
ISBN-10: 8765101324
ISBN-13: 9798765101322
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.71d
By Seth Kim-Cohen
By Seth Kim-Cohen
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Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.

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