{"id":111706,"date":"2017-06-13T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111706"},"modified":"2017-06-13T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:18:03","slug":"prog-rock-will-not-save-your-soul-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/prog-rock-will-not-save-your-soul-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prog Rock Will Not Save Your Soul, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111707\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111707\" class=\"wp-image-111707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/courtofthecrimsonking-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gatefold cover of King Crimson\u2019s LP <i>In the Court of the Crimson King.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why prog? Of all the varieties of music that can or could exist, what made <em>progressive rock<\/em> come slithering out of the human mind and into the historical record? These questions haunt everyone but\u00a0certain British and American men, who regard prog as their birthright: in the glittering virtuosity and nonsense mythology of bands like King Crimson and Yes, they hear the drumbeat of some distant utopia. Critics have tried and tried again to figure out why certain white men enjoy prog while the rest of us back away slowly from it. Reviewing David Weigel\u2019s new book on prog, <em>The Show That Never Ends<\/em>, Kelefa Sanneh samples a few compelling explanations: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/06\/19\/the-persistence-of-prog-rock\" target=\"_blank\">In 1997, a musician and scholar named Edward Macan published <em>Rocking the Classics<\/em><\/a> \u2026 Noting that this artsy music seemed to attract \u2018a greater proportion of blue-collar listeners\u2019 in the U.S. than it had in Britain, he proposed that the genre\u2019s Britishness \u2018provided a kind of surrogate ethnic identity to its young white audience\u2019: white music for white people, at a time of growing white anxiety. [The philosophy professor] Bill Martin, the quasi-Marxist, found Macan\u2019s argument \u2018troubling.\u2019 In his view, the kids in the bleachers were revolutionaries, drawn to the music because its sensibility, based on \u2018radical spiritual traditions,\u2019 offered an alternative to \u2018Western politics, economics, religion, and culture.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s some cocktail-party humiliation that\u2019s sure to land with a splash. Ask a fellow partygoer, Which Cyril Connolly book have <em>you <\/em>been reading? If they answer at all, they very probably will not say <em>The Unquiet Grave<\/em>\u2014and when they fail to say it, you can laugh at them mercilessly and then cite this Brian Dillon piece, which argues for <em>The Unquiet Grave <\/em>as an interesting flop: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/on-melancholy-essay-brian-dillon-cyril-connolly\/\" target=\"_blank\">If his friends are to be believed, Cyril Connolly was a monster of sloth and self-regard<\/a>. And yet, what an endearing figure he cuts\u2014if that\u2019s the verb, with Connolly\u2014through their letters and memoirs: maundering over failed affairs of heart or wallet, brimming with excuses for his books unwritten, ever ready to start afresh with the bubbles when the night wore on. Connolly\u2019s narrow reputation now rests largely on the mixture of memoir and high literary journalism in\u00a0<em>Enemies of Promise\u00a0<\/em>(1938), and not on his single novel\u00a0<em>The Rock Pool\u00a0<\/em>(1936), or the several collections of reviews he later packaged in lieu of proper books. Fewer still today are references to\u00a0<em>The Unquiet Grave<\/em>: the odd, fragmentary \u2018word cycle\u2019 he published under the pen name Palinurus in the autumn of 1944. But this is the book\u2014an essay, an anthology, a\u00a0<em>complaint<\/em>\u2014in which the contradictions in Connolly\u2019s talent and personality fail to resolve with the strangest, most seductive results. Here he anatomizes his worst traits: laziness, nostalgia, gluttony, hypochondria, some essential frivolity of mind that means his writing will always be summed up as \u2018<em>brilliant<\/em>\u2014that is, not worth doing.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Lorentzen spent some time with Michel Houellebecq\u2014in the States to promote a new gallery exhibition\u2014smoking and refusing the cold comforts of the gym-and-juice set: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/michel-houellebecq-interview\" target=\"_blank\">When he learned I also smoked he became animated in a way that none of my questions about his photographs, his novels, or politics in France, Europe, and America had made him<\/a>. \u2018The prohibition doesn\u2019t work!\u2019 he said. As Houellebecq, our translator O., and I walked to the elevator, he said that in California he hadn\u2019t met anyone who smoked. I told him there they were all preoccupied with health and activities like yoga. He said, \u2018Nobody will make us do yoga.\u2019 The weather outside had Houellebecq spooked. It was very sunny and mild, and he said that in France when the weather\u2019s nice people generally don&#8217;t bother going to gallery openings.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In writers as disparate as Paul Celan, Elias Canetti, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Robert Musil\u2014all of whom lived in the territories of the former Habsburg Empire\u2014Marjorie Perloff now recognizes a kind of shadow modernism. Adam Kirsch writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/06\/22\/marjorie-perloff-ironists-vanished-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perloff believes they share a certain sensibility, a way of thinking and feeling, that can be traced to their situation as legatees of a vanished empire<\/a>. Modernism is usually thought of as being radical in all directions; whether they were politically revolutionary or reactionary, modernist thinkers strove for a new beginning in art and culture \u2026 For the Austro-Modernists, by contrast, the dominant spirit was irony, as Perloff explains \u2026 This preference for diagnosis over prescription, for retrospection over renovation, is so far from what we usually think of as modernism that it may not seem to deserve the name. But in her case studies, Perloff argues convincingly that post\u2013World War I Austro-Hungarian literature\u2014a literature named after a country that had ceased to exist\u2014did share fundamental elements with the wider modernist project \u2026 The difference is that, while Eliot and Pound put their faith in various reactionary doctrines to repair the damage of the twentieth century, the Austro-Modernists remained poised in skepticism. To use a word that Perloff avoids, there is something liberal\u2014in the sense of anti-utopian, anti-ideological\u2014about these writers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Pagel has some harsh words for a new Bernadette Corporation exhibition in Los Angeles: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/la-et-cm-bernadette-corporation-review-20170609-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Words, like those an eager student might jot down during a lecture, have been engraved, laser-etched and printed on aluminum and acrylic panels, some clear and others mirrored<\/a>. References to Antonin Artaud, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are interspersed with narrative snippets and nods to Heliogabalus, emperor of Rome from 218\u00a0to 222, when he was assassinated at the ripe old age of eighteen. As a whole, the exhibition is far less interesting than any of its sources. Think of it as the visual equivalent of flatulence in a bubble bath. Only one piece does more than highlight its desire to be academic. It\u2019s also the crudest. With a syringe for a beak, bent drinking straws for legs and a foam cup for its head, <em>Gull Sculpture<\/em> is an antidote to the overproduced nonsense that makes up the rest of the exhibition. This show would be better if it were forgettable.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: investigating prog\u2019s appeal to white guys; chainsmoking with Houllebecq; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[29153,12710,29152,29151,13739,4524,29047,29049,29150],"class_list":["post-111706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-bernadette-corporation","tag-cyril-connolly","tag-habsburg-empire","tag-marjorie-perloff","tag-michel-houllebecq","tag-modernism","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-the-unquiet-grave"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Progressive Rock Save Your Soul? 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