Consequences of the affective turn: Exploring music practices from without and within
In this paper I explore the challenges of the “affective turn” and map new avenues of music research in this direction. I discuss four paths of enquiry, in deviation from the semiotic models: the discovery of the non-signified materiality and its potentiality to generate affects, the potent...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Muzikologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2015/1450-98141518057A.pdf |
| Summary: | In this paper I explore the challenges of the “affective turn” and map new
avenues of music research in this direction. I discuss four paths of enquiry,
in deviation from the semiotic models: the discovery of the non-signified
materiality and its potentiality to generate affects, the potentiality of
affect to de-signify, the ability of sign machines to catalyse the production
of intensities and, finally, the power of social machines to overcode the
produced affect through non-discursive mechanisms. I argue that the affective
turn in musicology can provide a different structuring of a view from without
and a view from within, calling both for finely tuned “close reading” and for
the ability of the researcher to grasp the performative context. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177004: Serbian Musical Identities
within Local and Global Frameworks: Traditions, Changes, Challenges] |
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| ISSN: | 1450-9814 2406-0976 |