The new persona that we might call “David Bowie in Berlin” was created through a turn to the art of a past era that also grappled with capitalist realism: Expressionism, an artistic movement that deepens the Romantic vein of expressing emotional experience. . . A future is mourned in the spectral fade-out that closes “SpeedContinue reading “Bowie in Berlin, Part 2”
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Bowie in Berlin, Part 1
It is the spring of 2003, midway through my first year in graduate school, and my friend Nathan had earlier that day acquired a used vinyl copy of David Bowie’s Station to Station from Amoeba Music. Some months later, we are driving down Sunset Boulevard listening to the song “Negativland” from Neu!’s 1972 debut album.Continue reading “Bowie in Berlin, Part 1”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 