{"product_id":"europe-and-the-wolf-political-variations-on-a-musical-figure-9781890951856","title":"Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsi? explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The \"wolf\" is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any attempt to temper and harmonize an instrument. \u003ci\u003eEurope and the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e brings this musical figure to bear on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe's ongoing social and political contradictions. Throughout, Nadal-Melsi? understands Europe as a conceptual problem that often relies on harmonization as an organizing category. The \"wolf\" as an emblem of disharmony, incarnated in the stranger, the immigrant, or the refugee, originates in the Latin proverb \"man is a wolf to man.\" This longstanding phrase evokes the pervasive fear, and even hatred, of what is foreign, unknown, or beyond the borders of a community. The book follows the \"wolf\" in a series of relays between the musical, the visual, and the political, and through innovative readings of artworks--by, among others, Carles Santos, Pere Portabella, Allora\u0026amp;Calzadilla, and Anri Sala. Traversed by the musical, these artworks, as well as Nadal-Melsi?'s writing, present unstable symbolic and material ensembles in an array of variations of political possibilities and impossibilities that evade institutions intolerant of uncertainty and wary of diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Nadal-Melsi?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781890951856","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43914058432649,"sku":"9781890951856","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7889e9fb-366e-4062-ba82-da002f6a1cba.jpg?v=1745298997","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/europe-and-the-wolf-political-variations-on-a-musical-figure-9781890951856","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}