Forthcoming December 2015
Issue One: Phenomenology & Music
Our first issue features work that explores the idea of music in its original formulation as musica, or muse: a longing, an unnamable desire to know. We experience music as a biorhythmic melancholia, the rhythmic utterance of all beings, that gives voice to the predicament of unknowing. Music unfolds in an unnamable region that restores us to our unruptured and continuous being. The mystery of music is its ability to profoundly move us even in its simplest manifestations. Bob Dylan’s “Shelter from the Storm” is three repeated chords with no bridge--simple stanzas, that nonetheless create a profound poetic experience that is greater than the sum of its parts.
We welcomed work that engaged with questions such as these:
What are the intersections between lived experience and the rhythmic?
How is musicality involved in life itself?
What is the role of music in the aesthetic of our everyday life?
What are the spiritual qualities of musicality in its various historical and cultural manifestations?
What is the relationship between vision or visuality and music?
What role does music play in the economy of power?
For details about submitting to our online publication, visit our submission guidelines. For details about submitting to our next themed issue, visit our The Road.
Protest Songs: A Turnip Truck(s) List
The word “protest” comes from the Latin noun testis, “one who attests, witness.” To protest thus is to bear witness, to testify publicly, to invoke, in front of or before the public. With this in mind, the editors at The Turnip Truck(s) have compiled a list of what we consider the greatest protest songs of all time. Songs that testify or bear witness to an idea, issue, political or humanitarian problem. Songs that invoke or call upon people to listen, be aware, act. Look for a new protest song every Sunday at The Turnip Truck(s).
