Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of MusicThis book reveals how major figures connected with modern music projected their own immorality into the field of music which has been the main vehicle of cultural revolution in the West. For the first time ever, a unified theory of music and cultural revolution links the work of figures like Wagner, Nietzsche, Schoenberg, Jagger and others to show the connection between the demise of classical music and the rise of rock 'n' roll. Beginning with Nietzsche's appropriation of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, music became the instrument for cultural upheaval. What began at the barricades of Dresden in 1849 found its culmination at Woodstock and Altamont and the other Dionysian festivals of 1969. The author shows the connection between the death of classical music and the rise of the African sensibility which Nietzsche saw as the antidote to Wagner prostrating himself before the cross in Parsifal. Nietzsche prophesied the end of the age of Christ/Socrates and the return of the spirit of music to philosophy. That return took place at the end of 1969 at an abandoned racetrack outside of San Francisco, and the world has never been the same. |
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... SOUND MUSIC WHAT You ' ? NE Hand adise for THREE SATURDAY SUNDAY August 16 , 1969 At 17 , 1969 $ 6.00 $ 6.00 the 21573- $ 6.00 $ 6.00 S 81558 DAY TICKET SEX POWER THE The man who sings Avg . 15 , 16 , 17 1967 $ 18.00 E BISTS TICKET Any ...
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