The Queer Art of Failure
Jack Halberstam
(Author)
Paul Boehmer
(Read by)
Description
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Halberstam proposes low theory as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. Halberstam pays particular attention to animated children's films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.
Product Details
Price
$19.99
$18.59
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publish Date
March 12, 2019
Language
English
Type
MP3 CD
EAN/UPC
9798200351343
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Ursula Hemetek ist Professorin fur Ethnomusikologie, Leiterin des Instituts fur Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie der mdw und seit 2017 Generalsekretarin des ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music). Harald Huber ist Professor fur Theorie und Geschichte der Popularmusik an der Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Prasident des Osterreichischen Musikrats. Therese Kaufmann ist Kulturwissenschaftlerin und leitet die Stabstelle Forschungsforderung der Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Isolde Malmberg ist Professorin fur Musikpadagogik/Musikdidaktik an der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Rostock und leitet dort die Studiengange Grundschule und Sonderpadagogik. Hande Saglam ist Ethnomusikologin und Archivleiterin am Institut fur Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie an der mdw. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Asik-Tradition in Anatolien, Musik aus der Turkei, Minderheitenmusik, Bi-Musikalitat und Transkulturellen Musikvermittlungsmethoden. Daliah Hindler ist seit 2015 Koordinatorin der interdisziplinaren Ringvorlesungsreihe Transkulturalitat_mdw und hat das Studium der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie an der Universitat Wien absolviert.
Read by Paul Boehmer, Justine Eyre, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, and Stefan Rudnicki