Karawane

By Ball, Hugo

Book Id: WPLBN0002954028
Format Type:
File Size: 8.39 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Karawane
Author:	Ball, Hugo
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Fantasy, Languages
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Karawane
Historic Publication Date:	1916
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Ball, B. H. (1916). Karawane. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010. Ball wrote his poem Karawane, which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief principle behind Dadaism. Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.(summary from Wikipedia)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fantasy, Languages, Literature, Poetry