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Global Musical Modernisms as Decolonial Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2023

GAVIN S. K. LEE
GAVIN S. K. LEE*
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Soochow University, China
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Abstract

This article argues that through historiography, global musical modernisms decolonize Western musical modernism, expanding and bursting the latter's spatial (geographic), vertical (high–low genres), and temporal boundaries. The unsettling of these various boundaries shows how coloniality is the context of, and thoroughly imbricated with, global musical modernisms – and yet the latter has channelled the self-conscious resistance of global music-makers against the colonial condition that characterizes modernity. Examining global musical modernisms both in the real world and in the inter-disciplines, this article addresses material complexities that are elided in purist dichotomous conceptions of resistance and oppression as inhering in different musics and cultures.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 20 , Special Issue 3: Global Musical Modernisms , October 2023 , pp. 424 - 448
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