CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN GENRES AND STYLES OF POPULAR MUSIC IN THE LIGHT OF JACQUES DERRIDA’S CONCEPT OF HAUNTOLOGY
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss4.04Keywords:
Jacques Derrida, hauntology, genre, style, American popular musicAbstract
The article in its first part discusses the concepts of genre and style and the issues these concepts pose in relation to the American popular music of the second half of the 20th century. The second part of the article considers the sources and consequences of the reappearance of those historical genres in contemporary music (since the beginning of the 21st century), situating these considerations in the context of Jacques Derrida’s hauntology.
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