Karl Ove Knausgård and the musical activism of Ani DiFranco and Pete Seeger

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with novelist Karl Ove Knausgård about his nonfiction book about Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Ani DiFranco’s new memoir chronicles the ups and downs of being a feminist folk hero. Pete Seeger would have been 100 this week, and Kurt revisits a lovely afternoon he spent with the singer in the home he built himself along the river. And a site-specific art project, “Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy,” exposes misogyny in popular music in a grueling yet entertaining way.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:05.9	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.7	The scream is, still is, if you see it, is a very wild painting.
0:14.1	It's extremely expressive and it's extremely careless,
0:18.4	and it's so powerful and so ruthless.
0:22.0	Norwegian writer Carl Uva Knausgaard, he's got a new subject.
0:25.4	This time, not himself, but his country's greatest artist.
0:28.9	Edvard Munk.
0:30.8	Plus,
0:31.4	He looks me up and down like he knows what time it is.
0:34.7	Talking about my experiences as a female was sort of startling.
0:39.5	Singer-songwriter Ani DeFranco on herself, as chronicled in a new memoir.
0:44.5	A lot of people kind of recoiled from it.
0:47.0	A lot of people dubbed me as angry, militant.
1:00.4	That and more of ahead on Studio 360 right after this. This is Studio 360.
1:04.8	This is Studio 360.
1:10.0	I'm Karen Anderson, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.1	This first level of garden.
1:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken paste.
1:17.9	Very well done.
1:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
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