Test card
Testcard is an anthology on the theory and history of pop culture in German.
Release
It appears every six months to annually (around 300 pages with numerous images) and is published by an editorial collective at Ventil Verlag in Mainz, made up of Roger Behrens and Jonas Engelmann , among others .
Content
Articles on music , film art and contemporary art revolve around a changing topic in each issue, and testcard also collects a large number of reviews. Further topics are left , pop , criticism , mainstream , subculture and cultural studies . testcard - Contributions to Pop History has been published since 1995. Testcard interlocks new music, improvisation, hip-hop, electronics and indie with politics, gender studies , literature, film, visual arts and philosophy far beyond the boundaries of the individual genres . The musical breadth is quite comparable to the British Wire ; however, a sociological cultural approach is being pursued, which always thinks of music in its social environment. The authors' closeness to the scene, subculture and counterculture plus an academic claim that goes beyond clichés have made testcard a standard series of talking and writing about pop for two decades.
Over the years the authors Dietmar Dath , Marc Degens , Barbara Kirchner , Georg Seeßlen , Marcus Stiglegger , Sonja Eismann , Christian Broecking , Ted Gaier , Olaf Karnik , Chris Köver wrote for the magazine.
In the testcard interviews with u. a. Alec Empire , Laurie Anderson , Pierre Bourdieu , Diedrich Diederichsen , Kodwo Eshun , Genesis P-Orridge , Commissioner Hjuler , Greil Marcus , Jonathan Meese , Thomas Meinecke , Michaela Melián , Simon Reynolds .
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