#craig schuftan

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Craig Schuftan on Music Makers Venturing into Video | Loop - YouTube Sound & Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqahaWIosa8

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🌻 Yellow Stack 🌻

Thanks @someonelookingpraediti​ for the tag!!

Here’s my stack! The list of book is below the cut so this doesn’t get too long and clog up anyone’s feeds. I’m tagging anyone who hasn’t yet been tagged but wants to join in!

Books on the left side - Non Fiction

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

The Culture Club: Modern Art, Rock and Roll, and Other Things Your Parents Warned You About - Craig Schuftan

Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire - Leslie Carroll

Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man Of Style - Ian Kelly

And then the stack on the right - Fiction

Juneau - Nick Earls (Wisdom Tree #4)

48 Shades of Brown - Nick Earls

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding

Artemis Fowl And The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl #4)

Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London #4)

The Midnight Palace - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

John Dies At The End - David Wong

Little Bee - Chris Cleave

When The Curtain Falls - Carrie Hope Fletcher

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Aaah i love it when people tell stuff about the shelleys, byron and polidori! I love to read about it! It is good to know that i am not the only one who is obsessed with queen and the romantics! That's the reason i study english literature!

omg you study english lit? that dope!

i’ve been into The Romantics since my senior year of high school - we did a term of study on them, the early romantics like coleridge and wordsworth through to byron shelley and keats, and i’ve been obsessed ever since. theres just something so fascinating to me about that era lmao 

I think a large part of why i fell in love with them is that I found this really great book (completely coincidentally, like i had it on order months before i started studying them) all about how the romantic era has influence modern rock music and especially ‘emo’ music.

The book is Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone! by Craig Schuftan and it connects keats to the cure and byron to my chemical romance and rousseau to bowie and all sorts of Romantic Era philosophy and opera and art to classic and modern rock. I’ve really gotta go back and reread it now that i’m a bit older and know a bit more about 70s/80s lmao i’m pretty sure queen was mentioned in there but i can’t remember specifics.

are there any books you’ve read about them that you remember being good? any fun facts about them that i missed?

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Hey i kknow this post is like probs an old one (god why doesnt mobile show time stamps?) BUT i thought you might be interested in this book by Craig Schuftan called Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!. Its about how Romantic ideals and concepts are all up in modern rock music, especially "Emo" stuff. I've read it a couple of times and this post reminded me of it lmao

lol yeah it’s bout 2 years old :) thanks for the rec! 

i’m jazzed this exists, as it Validates™ my academic ramblings that are both a joke and also completely serious lol. there goes my hope at being the first person to tackle this in book format, but it’s not the end of the world hahaha

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Entertain Us!: Craig Schuftan Rocks the '90s (The Brag, Issue 463, May 2012)

In Craig Schuftan’s latest book, he quotes Elizabeth Gilbert (yes, she of the eating, praying and loving) writing for Spin on the 1996 opening of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Above the reception desk was written, in “cheerful” brass letters on the wall, ‘Here We Are Now, Entertain Us’. The subtext being that if this was the legacy of the scrappy rock movement of which Kurt Cobain was a leader, then the late Nirvana frontman looks less like just a sick, compromised idealist and more like Cassandra, driven mad by premonition.

Entertain Us, subtitled ‘The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock In The Nineties’, is Schuftan’s third book, after two inspired by his work on triple j’s long-running series The Culture Club; but it’s the first where he’s restricted his examination to only one time period. “There was this format that I was working with for a long time, where I was time-travelling all the time,” he explains. “I was talking about Gnarls Barkley and then going back to Salvador Dali or Andre Breton or something. Which was fun, but I found myself wondering over the course of the last one whether I could write a proper history book.”

Schuftan, who cites Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces and Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man as significant influences on his thinking, is fascinated by rock’n’roll’s political and social genealogy – which, as Marcus points out, can be followed back through centuries, not just decades, and in anecdotes, not just sweeping declarations. For example, Entertain Us begins not with leading lights like Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Blur (though these are covered in detail), but with The Stone Roses in 1990: the Spike Island gathering, snarky one-off press conferences and a young Noel Gallagher leaving with stars in his eyes, drawing parallels with the communal cultural moments of the ‘60s and the fabled exponential influence of The Velvet Underground.

“I hope I didn’t over-mythologise them,” says Schuftan wryly. “If you look at their career, it’s not much – it’s two albums, there’s a long time between them and the second one was not that good. But the book is a cultural history and so it looks at cultural impact, and from that point of view The Stone Roses are incredibly important. They changed a lot of lives and minds, and they’re a landmark in the culture. I’ve tried to go for that in the book,” he goes on, “tried to go for what happens to music after it’s made, as much as what happens when people are trying to make it. So much music writing focuses a little too much on what people are trying to do or what bands think they’re doing. And there is a lot of failure in this book but it’s also a story about ideas travelling. That, for me, is the saving grace of the decade – the subversive ideas that were planted in popular culture continued to sprout throughout the decade and still do today.”

It might seem like a particularly timely book, given that the handcrafted-indie-DIY-local movement of the ’00s has now been co-opted by corporate marketing. But Schuftan suggests that the tension between the pricks and those kicking against them has never gone away.

“One of my favourite songs of 1999, the last year of that decade, was ‘Keep Your Dreams’, by Primal Scream,” says Schuftan – “‘Keep your dreams, don’t sell your soul, be careful’. As banal as that sounds, that was the feeling I was left with at the end of the book. If you have something that’s important to you, don’t sell it with cheap irony. Don’t give it away because you feel like it’s historically inevitable or that it’s a giant pop-art joke that only you and your audience will understand… If you have ideals that are important to you, making money out of them is not empowering. Selling a million records is not changing the world.”

Original: http://www.thebrag.com/2012/06/02/books-interview-entertain-us/

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Culture Club

Craig Schuftan

Triple J