Bookrosenberg 3.0 : not violin music / curated by Jon Rose.
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If the two previous volumes The Pink Violin and
Violin Music in the Age of Shopping upset, confused, and
entertained the music industry and cultural commentators,
rosenberg 3.0, through a series of allegorical and
insightful articles, will help ease the pain as practitioners of
music scratch their heads working out their next survival move.
This new book is the very final volume in as weird and twisted a
trilogy of cultural critique as you are ever likely to
encounter.
rosenberg 3.0 is a pseudonymous violin arcana compiled
by Jon Rose from an extremely diverse array of musicians, fans
and eccentrics, all deriving from the activities of the late
lamented virtuoso Dr Johannes Rosenberg. The great man's suicide
in Australia's Tanami Desert in 1992 has not stopped the torrent
of all things Rosenberg, and the new volume draws upon the
archives of the Rosenberg Museum in the town of Violin (in
Slovakia) to offer the reader a compendium of artefact, irony,
and dysfunction including: a single-use computer made of stone,
the Islamic violin, an investigation into the genre of Violin
Metal, a warning to the world about the Learned Elders of Viol, a
photo essay of inappropriate and iconic violin usage from the
museum archives, a tour through the Sydney suburb of Roselands in
search of live music, a high tech breakthrough used in recordings
of violin music from the 16th century, the exercise of power and
plagiarism through music, the decline of the jazz venue, the rise
of bio-technology and the violin, the transgressions of
contemporary composers, extensive definitions of music in the
21st century, and various other musicological diversions (such as
the origin of the wheeling goat) accompanied by a huge cast of Dr
Rosenberg's extended family, many of whom bear the same initial,
J.
ISBN: 978-1-32-017766-5
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