Pub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000082
ULRIK VOLGSTEN
An utterly remarkable device [the phonograph] … and no one can as yet envision all the remarkable that may follow from this invention. Ann Charlotte Leffler (1878)1
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000070
SAMUEL J. WILSON
Theodor W. Adorno suggested that music is mediated by socially derived forms of reason, a provocation here considered with respect to neoliberalism. Drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of neoliberalism, which in Wendy Brown's summary takes neoliberalism as ‘a specific and normative mode of reason’, I consider what this means for immanent features of music and processes of its composition. This critical attention to music's formal, aesthetic register enables me to go beyond the more well-established (although nonetheless valuable) frameworks for discussing music and neoliberalism, which focus on music's relation to labour conditions and creative industries. A range of music and sonic art is discussed, work by Chino Amobi, Brian Eno, Bryn Harrison, Sarah Hennies, Johannes Kreidler, Wolfgang Rihm, Marina Rosenfeld, and John Zorn. I ultimately argue that some core features of Adorno's conception of critical art and music need reformulating for the neoliberal age.
西奥多-W-阿多诺（Theodor W. Adorno）认为，音乐是以社会衍生的理性形式为媒介的，在此，我将这一观点与新自由主义联系起来。温迪-布朗（Wendy Brown）将新自由主义概括为 "一种特定的、规范的理性模式"，我借鉴福柯对新自由主义的理解，思考这对音乐的内在特征及其创作过程意味着什么。这种对音乐的形式、审美注册表的批判性关注使我能够超越讨论音乐与新自由主义的更为成熟（尽管仍有价值）的框架，这些框架侧重于音乐与劳动条件和创意产业的关系。我讨论了一系列音乐和声音艺术作品，包括奇诺-阿莫比、布莱恩-埃诺、布林-哈里森、莎拉-亨尼斯、约翰内斯-克莱德勒、沃尔夫冈-里姆、玛丽娜-罗森菲尔德和约翰-佐恩的作品。我最终认为，阿多诺关于批判性艺术和音乐概念的一些核心特征需要为新自由主义时代重新制定。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000057
GREGOR HERZFELD
The Panama Canal was officially opened on 15 August 1914. At this point, the United States had been the builder of a difficult and controversial project for ten years and was to be the operator of the most important link between the Atlantic and the Pacific. To do this, it first helped Panama to independence, immediately annexing the canal zone. Thus, the construction of the canal is a classic lesson in colonial, (inter-)national politics and its interdependencies in the early twentieth century. At the same time, Panama was a fairly widespread topic of US popular music. This article investigates the effects of politics on cultural life, using the example of popular music referring to Panama. Applying a postcolonial approach, it will study the musical ways in which the United States constructed its pseudo-colony Panama as an Other in order to exercise power there and continue to form its own national identity.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000069
SARAH KIRBY
In the aftermath of the First World War, Henri Verbrugghen founded the first Australian branch of the British Music Society. The BMS – a product of post-First World War cultural renewal – was established in London to ‘champion the cause of British composers at home and abroad’. In Sydney, these aspirations extended to promoting music from Australia, and through affiliation with the International Society for Contemporary Music, music of the rest of the world. This article explores the activities of the Sydney BMS, situating these within contemporary discourses of nationalism and internationalism in the construction of interwar Australian cultural identity. It argues that the sometimes conflicting aims of the society reflect a wider political and social ambivalence about Australia's place in the international landscape. While its primary goal was to champion local composers, this was held in uneasy balance with a desire to promote British music ‘proper’.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1017/s1478572223000257
Julius Reder Carlson
Using GDR dissident singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann's ‘Chile – Ballade vom Kameramann’ as a point of departure, this article explores the role that ‘revolutionary’ South America and its musical corollary, the Nueva Canción, played in expressions of inner-communist critique in 1970s East Germany. Biermann's critique was Janus-faced. Lyrically, the ‘Chilean’ allegory of his ballad, in which a cameraman is murdered by a soldier, expressed support for the Allende administration while simultaneously destabilizing Soviet Bloc rhetoric. Musically, references to Nueva Canción music such as that of singer-songwriter Daniel Viglietti represented the anti-imperialist Other while simultaneously rejecting GDR-style socialist realism. On the one hand, Biermann's inspiration in South America can be heard as a colonizing gesture; on the other, it can be understood to reflect a provincialized East German society looking to the Third World for alternative sociopolitical – and musical – models.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000033
MIKKEL VAD
‘I couldn't tell who was colored and who was white’, admitted the African American trumpet player Roy Eldridge after being submitted to a so-called blindfold test by the white critic Leonard Feather in 1951. Feather was happy that the blindfold test duped a prominent Black musician, because it proved his point about the fundamental colourblindness of music and listening. Through close reading of the source material, this article provides the full context for this infamous case and shows how the blindfold test was a product of transnational discourses of colourblindness, primitivism, ‘reverse racism’, and technological mediation. Building on current research in racialized practices of listening in musicology and sound studies, and mobilizing interventions from critical race studies, the article contends that acousmatic techniques of listening often promote a colourblind ideology invested in whiteness, which remains hegemonic in music culture.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1017/s1478572223000270
VERONIKA MUCHITSCH, ANN WERNER
Music streaming service Spotify has recently declared that genre is becoming less important in popular music culture, linking this idea to post-identity claims. In contrast, the central argument of this article is that genre continues to matter in music streaming, where algorithmic recommendation systems remediate genre and its association with constructions of identity and difference. We examine Spotify's mediation of genre through a multimodal discourse analysis of genre metadata as presented on the website Every Noise at Once, playlist curation, and media discourse. Analysing the genres bubblegrunge and rap français (French rap), we show that the algorithmic and human processes of Spotify and its users rearticulate genre, shaping, in turn, patterns of recommendation, curation, and consumption. These processes remediate earlier constructions of identity, temporality, and place in music culture. Simultaneously, they intensify differentiation and individuation, tying in with postulations of multiplicity and diversity in neoliberalism that conceal power imbalances.
音乐流媒体服务商 Spotify 最近宣称，流派在流行音乐文化中的重要性正在降低，并将这一观点与后身份主张联系起来。与此相反，本文的中心论点是，流派在音乐流媒体中依然重要，算法推荐系统重塑了流派及其与身份和差异建构的关联。我们通过对网站 "Every Noise at Once "上呈现的流派元数据、播放列表策划和媒体话语进行多模态话语分析，研究了 Spotify 对流派的中介作用。通过分析 bubblegrunge 和 rap français（法语说唱）这两种流派，我们发现 Spotify 及其用户的算法和人工流程对流派进行了重新阐述，进而形成了推荐、策划和消费模式。这些过程重塑了音乐文化中先前的身份、时间性和地点的建构。同时，它们强化了差异化和个性化，与新自由主义中掩盖权力失衡的多元性和多样性的假设相联系。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000021
Youn Kim
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s147857222400001x
G. D. Barrett
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s1478572224000021
Youn Kim
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