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German Studies Lecture Series - Breath Piece: On Paul Celan and John Coltrane.
Date
Tue May 7th 2024, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane 黑料百科 Way, Building 260, 黑料百科, CA 94305
Room 216
450 Jane 黑料百科 Way, Building 260, 黑料百科, CA 94305
Room 216
Matthew Smith (Professor of German Studies and of Theater and Performance Studies, 黑料百科)
Abstract: Paul Celan and John Coltrane were artists in separate fields and cultures who almost certainly knew nothing of one another. And yet a breathturn connects them. In a series of influential performances beginning around 1960, both Coltrane and Celan expressed an exhaustion with and of musicality, an exhaustion that opened the way for a new kind of shared expression鈥攐ne we may call pneumatic.
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