Tag: Dada

The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk


Free Download John Melillo, "The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk"
English | ISBN: 1501359916 | 2020 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 846 KB
By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice. Materializing in the threshold between the heard and the unheard, noise emerges in the differentiation and otherness of sound. It arises in the folding of an "outside" into the "inside" of poetic performance both on and off the page. Through a series of case studies ranging from verse by ear-witnesses to the First World War, Dadaist provocations, jazz modernist song and poetry, early New York City punk rock, contemporary sound poetry, and noise music, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk describes productive failures of communication that theorize listening against the grain of sound’s sense.

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Cannibalizing the Canon Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe


Free Download Oliver A. I. Botar, "Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe "
English | ISBN: 9004526730 | 2024 | 633 pages | PDF | 140 MB
This deeply researched and carefully conceived volume dismantles the prevailing notion of Dada as a mainly "Western" phenomenon. Building on previous studies of East-Central European Dada, it demonstrates how Dada artists from Bucharest to Prague actively defined, shaped, appropriated, and cannibalized the Modernist canon.

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The Dada Archivist Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters and Berlin Dada


Free Download Stina Barchan, "The Dada Archivist: Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters and Berlin Dada "
English | ISBN: 180079889X | 2023 | 318 pages | PDF | 82 MB
The archive of the German artist Hannah Höch has long been an important source of material for historians researching Berlin Dada. This book demonstrates how her archive is not just a collection of documents, but a work in its own right, connected to the artist’s daily life and, especially, to the life and work of Kurt Schwitters.

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