Cyrus Shahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyrus Shahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyrus |
| FAMILY NAME | Shahan |
| SIGNATURE | SHAHAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany
The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity
Audible in the technological aesthetics of West German post punk is a 1980s strategy for escaping the political, cultural, and aesthetic contradictions of a nation trapped by the compulsion to, reconstruction of, and march toward a democratic state. Through the bands Die tödliche Doris and Pyrolator, this article locates potential sonic escapes from the canonical legacy of German experience in post punk's technological turn. Against the confineme…
The Real and Illusory after September 11, 2001, in Elfriede Jelinek's Bambiland and Babel
Elfriede Jelinek's play with media and violence is particularly relevant after the events of September 11, 2001. Her 2003 drama Bambiland and the accompanying triad of monologues in Babel (2004) exist in the medial and reality rubble of the twin towers and the “war on terror.” Jelinek mimes the transformation of war into television by the twenty‐four hour news cycle and the transmission of “live” events that compose the natural outgrowth of the S…
The Sounds of Terror
This essay uses punk music to complicate the legacy of West German socio-political turmoil after the apex of German terrorism. Reading punk music's misappropriation of markers of German terrorism, specifically in songs by the bands S.Y.P.H. and FSK, the “German Autumn” of 1977 ceases to signal the twilight of combative social resistance in West Germany. Instead 1977 marks a transition from actual to aesthetic violence. Punk music sought to wield …
Less than Bodies
In his 1997 lectures in Zürich, later published as On the Natural History of Destruction (2003), W.G. Sebald indicted German-language literature with failure to adequately remember, represent, or reconcile the atrocities and violence of World War II. Drawing on Elaine Scarry's work on the body, Sebald locates the corporeal as crucial for his sought-after literary-historical aesthetic, and he thereby hypothesizes that Alexander Kluge's essay “The …
Decadent Fetishism in Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
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Decadent Fetishism in Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Less than Bodies
In his 1997 lectures in Zürich, later published as On the Natural History of Destruction (2003), W.G. Sebald indicted German-language literature with failure to adequately remember, represent, or reconcile the atrocities and violence of World War II. Drawing on Elaine Scarry's work on the body, Sebald locates the corporeal as crucial for his sought-after literary-historical aesthetic, and he thereby hypothesizes that Alexander Kluge's essay “The …
The Sounds of Terror
This essay uses punk music to complicate the legacy of West German socio-political turmoil after the apex of German terrorism. Reading punk music's misappropriation of markers of German terrorism, specifically in songs by the bands S.Y.P.H. and FSK, the “German Autumn” of 1977 ceases to signal the twilight of combative social resistance in West Germany. Instead 1977 marks a transition from actual to aesthetic violence. Punk music sought to wield …
The Real and Illusory after September 11, 2001, in Elfriede Jelinek's Bambiland and Babel
Elfriede Jelinek's play with media and violence is particularly relevant after the events of September 11, 2001. Her 2003 drama Bambiland and the accompanying triad of monologues in Babel (2004) exist in the medial and reality rubble of the twin towers and the “war on terror.” Jelinek mimes the transformation of war into television by the twenty‐four hour news cycle and the transmission of “live” events that compose the natural outgrowth of the S…
The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity
Audible in the technological aesthetics of West German post punk is a 1980s strategy for escaping the political, cultural, and aesthetic contradictions of a nation trapped by the compulsion to, reconstruction of, and march toward a democratic state. Through the bands Die tödliche Doris and Pyrolator, this article locates potential sonic escapes from the canonical legacy of German experience in post punk's technological turn. Against the confineme…
A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany
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