Stream Your Event | Partners | Speakers CART ITEMS: - | CHECKOUT

Craig Schuftan: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone

Watch Full Video | previews

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Info
Bio
Chapters
Preview
Download
Zoom In

Craig Schuftan Compares Modern Rock to Classic Literature

01 min 57 sec

Add to Profile

Craig Schuftan, author of Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone, says a lot of modern rock music is modeled on themes of classical literature.

He compares the song "Disarm" by The Smashing Pumpkins to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Emo and Individualism: We’re All Alone Together

03 min 48 sec

Add to Profile

Craig Schuftan, author of Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone, examines the contradictions inherent in the emo style of music.

He discusses how both David Bowie and My Chemical Romance inspired "a mass movement based on the idea that everyone is a unique and special individual."
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Original Rockstar?

02 min 25 sec

Add to Profile

Author Craig Schuftan describes the similarities between Friedrich Nietzsche and modern rock stars.

He explains how Nietzsche's philosophy reflects the hedonistic, egotistic, and daredevil aspects of rock and roll.
Watch Full Program

55 min 55 sec

Add to Profile

There are 3 comments on this program

Please or register to post a comment.

Previous FORAtv comments:

theknopfknows

Posted: 07.15.10, 07:51 PM

A loy of condensed information, yet the history of today`s music dates back to the earlt 1900, and before that, Nietzsch SAID "LIFE WITHOUT MUSIC IS A MISTAKE" Influenced by Wagner! Music has a balance of Religion-philosophy and science, therefore without it, one has little! Thanks Foratv it`s been Fun

Frank247

Posted: 10.04.09, 09:06 AM

I definitely agree, romanticism is not dead, and the emo genre carries it quite well through our social culture. I have always been fascinated with enlightened bands or song writers and artists as they have always given me more inspiration to stick my head into a book and find further expression in life through the lives of great historical figures.