FW: Theory of "Intercultural" Composition

[Chew G]

I hope list members will not mind my airing this question here. On the Society for Music Theory's list, one current thread deals with so-called intercultural composition, especially in the last 20 years or so, and the originator of the thread has the following to say about the Russian take on the subject.  Would anyone here care to comment, whether or not from a musical perspective?
 
Geoff
 
 Geoffrey Chew
 g.chew at rhul.ac.uk

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From: smt-talk-bounces at societymusictheory.org on behalf of matralab
Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Theory of "Intercultural" Composition


Dear all who have answered on and offline - what an overwhelming and positive response.

And there were indeed some suggestions about books that I did not know existed.
As one respondent suggested, I will share my reading list either with the smttalklist, 
or, if that is against the list netiquette, I would post them on my academia profile. 
(http://concordia.academia.edu/SandeepBhagwati).

Thank you all again, and those who have sent me personal mails  - I will respond asap.

One nugget of information: 
I am on tour in Russia right now, and in discussions about this suject (and composers like Faradzh Karaev or Franghis Ali-Zadeh etc.)  with musicologist Fjodor Sofronov from Tchaikovsky Conservatorium Moscow he explained to me that Soviet and Russian musicology have major problems dealing with any form of interculturalism in contemporary composition, because interest in new music is perceived as being equivalent with a liberal attitude that is pro-western - already a difficult position in an increasingly nationalist intellectual environment. To compound that with the, as he said, "official, but unfulfilled" multiculturalism of Russia, also a hot seat issue, would be too much to take on - and so Russian musicology, despite the fact that it got off to a good start with Asafiev's Intonation theory, did not look at this subject much over the past 80 years. Does any one have any corrections or comments to this statement ? Does anyone know of important Russian theories of multicultural composition...?

Best yours
Sandeep


2009/4/22 matralab <matralab at gmail.com>


	Dear Collective Wisdom
	
	could you help me with references to any (comprehensive / seminal / detailed) (theoretical/ aesthetical/ analytical/ overview) publications in English or French
	about contemporary (trans-/cross-/inter-/poly-/cultural) composition that one must not be unaware of if thinking about the subject...
	
	I mean western art music composers such as Tan Dun, Frank Denyer, Takahashi Yuji, Isang Yun, Liza Lim, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Jean-Claude Eloy, Mochizuki Misato , Hosokawa Toshio, Guo Wenjing, Xu Shuya, Jin Hi Kim, Chen Xiaoyong, Younghi-Pagh Paan, Claude Vivier, Klaus Huber, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc. - a wide selection but I hope you get the drift.
	Publications after 2000 are preferred.
	
	I will give some lectures and analysis seminars this summer, and I already have a small reading list, but as I am not a theoretician myself, and not really well versed in the anglophone discourse (being more of German extraction) I may have overlooked some essential reading.
	
	Thankful for any hint. Names of composer you consider seminal and who do not appear in the list above are also welcome, if possible with contacts or publishers.
	
	Best 
	Sandeep Bhagwati
	Composer
	Canada Research Chair Inter-X Art
	Concordia University Montreal


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