Used disliked music can transport a writer back to an era’s grain

Evidence

Music in Peace’s books functions as a hauntological trigger. He’s remarked that he uses music, including music he doesn’t like, to take him back to the feel, the grain, of a period. Musical references are embedded in the text either diegetically, as background sound, or more esoterically, as cryptic-epigraphic ciphers and repeated incantations: a portal effect that gratifyingly echoes (in reverse) the way in which music of the 1970s, especially postpunk, would direct listeners to fiction. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 184

Categorization

• SEED: The technique of using disliked cultural objects as time portals is a portable method for anyone writing period work.
• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s music-hauntology thread and the idea of music directing listeners to fiction. — connects to: Period films fail when actors lack the weathered grain of an era — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 168; Rapid sound change drives nostalgic fictionalization of past sounds — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 607

Broader Connections

• Rapid sound change drives nostalgic fictionalization of past sounds #expands (0.80) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 607