Towards other histories of popular music: Multiple temporalities, discontinuities and experience

Authors

  • Iván Iglesias University of Valladolid

Keywords:

history, popular music, multiple temporalities, discontinuity, experience

Abstract

In the last decade, the study of popular music has shifted significantly to explore the relevance of its genesis, networks, and mediations. However, this interest in a relational ontology has not entailed an analysis of the temporal interconnections that have shaped the everyday musical experience. It seems that popular music studies have naturalized the modern concept of time as incontrovertible. This article suggests that an ontological turn in music histories should question single and linear temporalities, which can operate as forms of epistemic hegemony. To this end, it proposes to transfer to the history of popular music a way of thinking about time that is characteristic of recent anthropology and that challenges traditional narratives about the past, conceiving musical experience from multitemporality and discontinuity. The aim is to build bridges between ontology and epistemology in the studies of our musical pasts, with historiographical and ethical implications.

Author Biography

Iván Iglesias, University of Valladolid

Iván Iglesias es Profesor Titular en la Universidad de Valladolid. Ha sido profesor visitante en la City University of New York, Freie Universität Berlin, Cardiff University, La Sapienza Università di Roma y la Universidad de La Habana. Entre 2008 y 2014 fue miembro de la junta directiva de la SIBE y desde 2021 es presidente de la rama española de la IASPM. Es autor del libro La modernidad elusiva: jazz, baile y política en la guerra civil española y el franquismo (CSIC, 2017) y co-editor de los volúmenes Current Issues in Music Research (Colibri, 2012) y Music and the Spanish Civil War (Peter Lang, 2021), así como de las voces sobre España para la Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Actualmente es investigador principal del proyecto "Música popular y cultura urbana en el franquismo (1936-1975): sonidos cotidianos, dinámicas locales, procesos transnacionales" (PID2021-128307OB-I00), financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

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Published

2023-12-31

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023): Revista Argentina de Musicología. Dossier: Other histories. New historical approaches in ethnomusicology

Section

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