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“Life imitates art” Oscar Wilde said and he was right, wasn’t he?
But art can also enable us to understand the underlying cultural principles/ideas/believes/self-conception... of one person, groups, even nations in which it was created. Music is art. Sometimes not even a closer look is needed to get a feeling for what the people behind a melody thought or think themselves to be like, to get a feeling for the idea of identity represented in this specific piece of music.
“Who am I and if yes, how many?” Richard David Precht - sounds misplaced when considering music? Not at all, as we will discover throughout this seminar. Funny enough, this is even a question absolutely legitimate to ask yourself, believe me.
Please, be prepared to think on your own, together with others, to talk, to listen, to interact and definitively to have songs stuck in your head. |
