Equipment for living : on poetry and pop music / Michael Robbins.

• How can art help us make sense--or nonsense--of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick's "Cups"). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal music, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. 

Ämnesord

Poesi  (sao)

Populärmusik  (sao)

Poetry.  (LCSH)

Art  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Art  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Poetry  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular music  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Popular music  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Populärmusik  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Poesi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Poetry  (LCSH)

Popular music  (LCSH)

Genre

Essäer  (saogf)

Klassifikation

PS3618.O315244 (LCC)

814.6 (DDC)