Hippies meet avant-garde

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On Tuesday, October 24, 2017, the lecture "Hippies meet Avantgarde - Grenzgänge zwischen U und E um 1968" by Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske and Prof. Dr. Matthias Tischer will take place in the Mendelssohn Hall as part of the lecture series Musik / Mensch II: Musik und Revolution. It starts at 6 pm and admission is free.

Against the backdrop of the social and political revolutions at the end of the 1960s, a poetic and aesthetic revolution took place in music. Entertaining and so-called serious music collided like heated air masses in a thunderstorm, causing lightning and thunder in musical life. Serious composers yearn for the hippie happening, while colorfully dressed pop artists and psychedelics of both genders sample from the tree of the avant-garde. And mockers in women's clothing stand at the side of the road and make fun of both: the artification of pop and the last twitches of a material-oriented musical dramaturgy of outdoing itself, which is just about to turn into its other - a sifting and collecting aesthetic that will soon be called postmodernism.
Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske and Prof. Dr. Matthias Tischer teach musicology at the HfMT Hamburg.