Reuben, Federico orcid.org/0000-0003-1330-7346 (2015) Imaginary Musical Radicalism and the Entanglement of Music and Emancipatory Politics. Contemporary Music Review. pp. 232-246. ISSN 1477-2256
Abstract
The relationship between music and politics in the discourse of creative practitioners is often reduced to assertions of causality between specific musical works or aesthetic traits and particular political actions or ideologies. The association between the musical avant-garde and emancipatory politics (and their perceived common failure to fulfil a historical destiny) is evidence that a unidimensional understanding of the interconnections between these two practices can have a saturating effect on musical reception and creation. A direct result of this reductive approach is the emergence of an artistic category that could be labelled, imaginary musical radicalism—a creative approach in which artists replicate musical strategies of the avant-garde movements, detached from their original modernist vision (Rancière). This article proposes a heuristic and multidimensional approach, based on a radical historicist analysis (Rockhill) of musical and political practices as an alternative model for the creative practitioner working at the intersection of music and politics.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Politics,Aesthetics,Avant-garde,Jacques Rancière,Gabriel Rockhill |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Music (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2016 17:12 |
Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2025 00:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2015.1094221 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/07494467.2015.1094221 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93511 |
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