Thursday, February 23, 2017

The truth, beauty, and power of punk rock (mp3 audio)

From  ABC Radio's Philosopher's Zone...
It might not be beautiful but it’s aesthetic all the same. Punk music burst onto the scene four decades ago with a vitality that shredded standards—musical and otherwise. Yet punk has been largely overlooked in aesthetic analysis, even though it can reveal some discordant truths about the nature and meaning of art— as well as that somewhat abstruse school of continental thought: Existentialism.
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