Contributors were briefed to explore dysfunctionalism as a theme. The glossy, low-resolution cover betrays its origins in a print-on-demand self-publishing house. Each chapter has a different font (though Comic Sans does not make an appearance, I was disappointed to find. Book sections can only be distinguished by their idiosyncratic typesetting. There is no table of contents, nor even a list of contributors. It is an unwieldy book, lacking even that most basic of bibliographic conveniences: page numbers. The material form of the book develops this sense of cultural amnesia. The book revels in collapse and tragedy, beginning with a post-apocalyptic portrait of one Dr Rosenberg reinventing the Doric column and ending with a suicide. For those who have not had the pleasure of delving into the intellectual humus of the Rosenberg family tree, the Rosenbergs are a clan of physicists, mathematicians and, of course, violinists who all share the same first initial “J.” The family’s pseudonymous scholars are keen culture critics and dialecticists, ready to lament the decline of Western Civilization while decrying its inherent contradictions. Following Pink Violin and Violin Music in the Age of Shopping, not v iolin music presents the latest scholarship from the rarefied field of Rosenbergology.
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