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Title: Studio 360: Culture Shock 1913
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-13
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, American viewers confronted Cubism and abstraction for the first time. In Vienna, the audience at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinskys new ballet The Rite of Spring burst on stage with inflammatory results.
Culture Shock 1913 tells the stories behind these and other groundbreaking events that year, and goes back to consider what led to this mad, Modernist moment. "I think in a lot of ways it was just the beginning of a century just of absolute chaos and nightmare, and as so often, the artists heard it and reflected it first," notes the critic Tim Page. WNYCs Sara Fishko speaks with thinkers, authors, musicians, art curators, and historians about this unsettling era of sweeping change and the not-so-subtle ways in which it mirrors our own uncertain age.
This Studio 360 episode is an abridged version of a one-hour documentary Sara Fishko produced for WNYC. [Broadcast Date: December 28, 2013]
