The constructed nature of memory – the manner in which traditions are
constructed after the event – has also become more evident within a
culture increasingly in thrall to spurious notions of ‘heritage’.
Investigations into the relationship between tradition and innovation
are paralleled by those into the relationship between history and fiction.
Here the insight from poststructuralist critical theory – that history and
fiction are not as different, not as mutually exclusive as we might have
imagined – is useful.
It encourages acknowledgement that history is
constructed from a series of individual accounts, partial viewpoints,
each with its own quota of elaboration or untruth, and that our access
to it is always mediated through such narratives and texts.
The (paradoxically) historical nature of fiction which, being written at a particular historical and cultural point, inevitably encodes whatever collective thought processes are current within that context and grows from the concerns and language of that moment, is also evident.
Sampling, in addition to functioning as a tool of time manipulation
and repetition, encourages this type of recontextualisation, allowing the
easy manipulation, transformation and juxtaposition of genre or culture.
As ‘morphing’ techniques become more widespread, collisions of
culture and genre increasingly result in complex hybridisation.
- Simon Emmerson and the contributors, 2000
Music, Electronic Media and Culture.
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released June 3, 2020
Tarawangsa : performed & recorded by
Tarawangsa Sonic Ensemble
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