...Silvia D. Spitta This essay frames an extended 2008 interview with Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread and Puppet Theater collective, through a discussion of how the sixties spread like wildfire across the world. The author rescues the sixties' understanding that liberation could only...

... of the essays note our particular historical relationship to the period—many of the participants in the struggle are still living and active, just as several of the authors in this issue were active participants in the events. Spitta’s consideration of the project of Peter Schumann and the...

... persistent determination before Heine. The love poems, which have become widely known through Robert Schumann’s lieder cycle Dichterliebe, express this tendency in a remarkably subliminal yet distinct fashion. While the romanticizing compositions often seek to cover up this tension or domesticate it into...

... organological and belongs to a new circuit of transindividuation. For the piano, on which Barthes deciphers and inter- prets the scores of Robert Schumann, is not an instrument of the nobility; its possession and its practice are hallmarks of the bourgeoisie. • • • • Beyond its properly...