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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965113203321

Autore

Eshun Kodwo

Titolo

Dan Graham: Rock My Religion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Afterall, , 2012

ISBN

1-84638-110-X

1-283-63776-6

1-84638-111-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

One work

Disciplina

709.2

Soggetti

Art and music

Art - History

Historiography

Sound installations (Art)

Video art

Art History

Sound Installations

Discursive works

Essays

Critical Writing

Essay

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).

Nota di contenuto

One Work Series; One Work Series Foreword; Contents; On First Encounter; The Gods of Hardcore; The Trailer; It's Her Factory; The Turbine; Mother Ann Lee Leads the Shakers to the New Land; The Puritans; Rock and the Commodity Form; The Great Day of His Wrath; In the Court of the Lizard King; The Necessity of Violence; Endnotes

Sommario/riassunto

"Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982-84) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Black Flag and Glenn Branca) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). This coming together of several narrative voice-overs, of singing and shouting voices, of jarring sounds and text overlaid onto shaky, gritty images, proposes a historical genealogy of rock music and



an ambitious thesis on the origins of America. In this illustrated book, Kodwo Eshun examines this landmark work of contemporary moving image in relation to Graham's wider body of work and to the broader culture of the time, especially in relation to history, popular culture, and individual and communal identity."--