Contradictory critical dismissal signals genuinely novel music
Evidence
Footwork has been greeted with the fanfare that usually accompany the arrival of an avant-garde dance music. These contradictory responses — footwork’s being written off as something that you can’t dance to at the same time as it is dismissed as a functional music, something that would only be properly appreciated by those dancing to it — is a sure sign that we are in the presence of something which scrambles the defaults of rearview hearing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1328
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes Fisher’s own argument about hauntology and ‘rearview hearing’ recurring throughout K-Punk — music criticism that reads new music only through old categories. — connects to: Musical style itself can signal authenticity through declared exclusions rather than content — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 54; Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2211; Approved musical charms make listeners reject unfamiliar sonorities as dissonant — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 97 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order.
#corroborates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2211 - Musical style itself can signal authenticity through declared exclusions rather than content
#expands(0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 54 - Approved musical charms make listeners reject unfamiliar sonorities as dissonant
#expands(0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 97 - A single musical note contains partials so dense they clash with themselves
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