web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:40:02 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Romanticism” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/romanticism Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two https://www.weirdstudies.com/28 310fa490-148f-473d-95e2-2838037c8276 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 28 Weird Music, Part Two full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel The search for the music of the weird continues with a discussion on Bob Dylan and Franz Liszt. 1:04:29 yes "Music is worth living for," Andrew W.K. sings in his latest rock anthem. In this second episode on the weirdness of music, JF and Phil focus on two works steeped in ambiguity and paradox: Bob Dylan's "Jokerman," from the landmark post-Christian album Infidels, and Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz, No. 1: The Dance at the Village Inn," inspired by an episode in the Faust legend. If this conversation has a central theme, it may be music's power to unhinge every fixed binary, from God and the Devil to culture and nature. Music, as exemplified in these pieces, can put us in touch with the abiding mystery of the eternal in the historical, the unhuman in the human... The hills are alive! REFERENCES Bob Dylan, "Jokerman" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSvsFgvWr0) Franz Liszt, “Mephisto Waltz no. 1,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaBa9q3u9H0) performed by Boris Berezovsky Andrew WK, "Music is Worth Living For" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdW3UJ7lQvU) Leonard Cohen, “The Future” (https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-the-future-lyrics) C.G. Jung, [Aion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion:ResearchesintothePhenomenologyoftheSelf)_ Douglas Rushkoff, Testament (http://www.rushkoff.com/books/testament/) The Guardian, “Carthaginians sacrificed own children, archaeologists say” (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/21/carthaginians-sacrificed-own-children-study) Garry Wills, "Our Moloch" (https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/12/15/our-moloch/) Minoan snake goddess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_snake_goddess_figurines) statues Richard Wagner, Parsifal http://www.monsalvat.no/ T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land) Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (https://www.amazon.com/Untwisting-Serpent-Modernism-Music-Literature/dp/0226012549) Beckett, Not I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LDwfKxr-M) Nikolaus Lenau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Lenau), German Romantic poet Wolgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Faust-Part-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/019953621X), translated by David Luke Weird Studies, Episode 3: Sin: "Ecstasy, and the White People" (https://www.weirdstudies.com/3) franz liszt, faust, bob dylan, jokerman "Music is worth living for," Andrew W.K. sings in his latest rock anthem. In this second episode on the weirdness of music, JF and Phil focus on two works steeped in ambiguity and paradox: Bob Dylan's "Jokerman," from the landmark post-Christian album Infidels, and Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz, No. 1: The Dance at the Village Inn," inspired by an episode in the Faust legend. If this conversation has a central theme, it may be music's power to unhinge every fixed binary, from God and the Devil to culture and nature. Music, as exemplified in these pieces, can put us in touch with the abiding mystery of the eternal in the historical, the unhuman in the human... The hills are alive!

REFERENCES

Bob Dylan, "Jokerman"
Franz Liszt, “Mephisto Waltz no. 1,” performed by Boris Berezovsky

Andrew WK, "Music is Worth Living For"
Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
C.G. Jung, Aion
Douglas Rushkoff, Testament
The Guardian, “Carthaginians sacrificed own children, archaeologists say”
Garry Wills, "Our Moloch"
Minoan snake goddess statues
Richard Wagner, Parsifal http://www.monsalvat.no/
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
Beckett, Not I
Nikolaus Lenau, German Romantic poet
Wolgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1, translated by David Luke
Weird Studies, Episode 3: Sin: "Ecstasy, and the White People"

]]> "Music is worth living for," Andrew W.K. sings in his latest rock anthem. In this second episode on the weirdness of music, JF and Phil focus on two works steeped in ambiguity and paradox: Bob Dylan's "Jokerman," from the landmark post-Christian album Infidels, and Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz, No. 1: The Dance at the Village Inn," inspired by an episode in the Faust legend. If this conversation has a central theme, it may be music's power to unhinge every fixed binary, from God and the Devil to culture and nature. Music, as exemplified in these pieces, can put us in touch with the abiding mystery of the eternal in the historical, the unhuman in the human... The hills are alive!

REFERENCES

Bob Dylan, "Jokerman"
Franz Liszt, “Mephisto Waltz no. 1,” performed by Boris Berezovsky

Andrew WK, "Music is Worth Living For"
Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
C.G. Jung, Aion
Douglas Rushkoff, Testament
The Guardian, “Carthaginians sacrificed own children, archaeologists say”
Garry Wills, "Our Moloch"
Minoan snake goddess statues
Richard Wagner, Parsifal http://www.monsalvat.no/
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
Beckett, Not I
Nikolaus Lenau, German Romantic poet
Wolgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1, translated by David Luke
Weird Studies, Episode 3: Sin: "Ecstasy, and the White People"

]]>