This will be the first of a series of sub-cycles within the Sound Philosophy podcast focusing on a specific thinker in some depth for what she or he can tell us about aspects of popular music (even if, as is the case here, that thinker never wrote explicitly about popular music). Of course, Nietzsche as first an acolyte of Richard Wagner and then an apostate Wagnerian, wrote insightfully and provocatively about music. We will be discussing his thoughts concerning music and art, its Schopenhauerian debts as well as its attempts to liberate itself from those debts, and how the role of music shifted in Nietzsche’s thinking over the course of his career.
- 006 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy: An Introduction
- 007 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Sections 1-2
- 008 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and Repetition in Music
- 009 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Sections 3-25, and the 1960s Dionysian
- 010 An Improvisation on Adorno, Nietzsche, and the Grateful Dead
- 014 Nietzsche’s Rausch, Aesthetic Form, and Highlife Music
- 018 Crossing Over: Billboard, Nietzsche and the Supremes
- 021 The Carter Family and the Death of God
- 023 On Distance, Nietzsche, and Conscious Rap
- 026 Feeling Otherwise: Music, Commodity and Streaming
