Creative Life : Music, Politics, People, and Machines Paperback / softback
by Bob Ostertag
Paperback / softback
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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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 25 black & white photographs, discography, filmography
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780252076466
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 25 black & white photographs, discography, filmography
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252076466
