New Music and Critical Cosmopolitanism
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- Speaker(s):
- Björn Heile (University of Sussex), Chair: Arnold Whittall (King's College London)
- Event date:
- Thursday 22 October 2009
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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Although it has successfully spread around the globe, new music is usually regarded as ‘western’. While there are historic reasons for this association, it clearly distorts the globalised nature of today’s international new music scene and devalues the work of non-western composers. Drawing on such diverse sources as the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Franco Moretti’s notion of ‘world literature’, postcolonial studies and, in particular, the debates surrounding critical cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, I will propose a new model of the cultural geography of new music which will challenge the implicit universalism and Euro-centrism of current discourses in the field.