Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure

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How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identityIn this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsió explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The &“wolf&” is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any attempt to temper and harmonize an instrument. Europe and the Wolf brings this musical figure to bear on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe&’s ongoing social and political contradictions. Throughout, Nadal-Melsió understands Europe as a conceptual problem that often relies on harmonization as an organizing category. The &“wolf&” as an emblem of disharmony, incarnated in the stranger, the immigrant, or the refugee, originates in the Latin proverb &“man is a wolf to man.&” This longstanding phrase evokes the pervasive fear, and even hatred, of what is foreign, unknown, or beyond the borders of a community. The book follows the &“wolf&” in a series of relays between the musical, the visual, and the political, and through innovative readings of artworks—by, among others, Carles Santos, Pere Portabella, Allora&Calzadilla, and Anri Sala. Traversed by the musical, these artworks, as well as Nadal-Melsió&’s writing, present unstable symbolic and material ensembles in an array of variations of political possibilities and impossibilities that evade institutions intolerant of uncertainty and wary of diversity.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
328 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781890951900
Related ISBNs:
9781890951856
Publisher:
Zone Books
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Copyrighted By:
Sara Nadal-Melsió
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Music, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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