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BOB OSTERTAG: Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines

Luminous essays on the nexus of music, politics, and technology

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.



http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/ca ... 34510.html

lukaz, thanks for posting this.
i'm applying to a program ostertag teaches here, but have never really clicked with any of his work i've looked into or heard. this book looks like it may be a good place to dig in for a variety of content.

this sounds interesting, looking forward to get this. but i've been told this will only available to european distros/shops in october.