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Naked History: A Musical Embodiment

Jenny Game (JMC Academy, Australia)

Embodying the Music and Death Nexus

ISBN: 978-1-80117-767-2, eISBN: 978-1-80117-766-5

Publication date: 17 August 2022

Abstract

This study is a queer autoethnography which deconstructs assumptions about a queer musical perspective and the associated heteronormative power and privilege. Using the lens of a Heideggerian interpretive phenomenology, it examines the request for and subsequent actualising or unfolding of musical compositions that respond to works of art. The request, being for a ‘queer compositional response’ to artworks occurred as personal; it touched my experience of being occurring as a kind of existential threat. As such, the personal is clearly political, positioning the experience of the request for queer compositions as a cultural experience which I am examining as socially unjust, or discriminatory. Furthermore, examining the intersectionalities of oppressive heteronormative and sexist attitudes and actions as queer in the world is an authentic mode of being in Heidegger's analytic of Dasein.

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Game, J. (2022), "Naked History: A Musical Embodiment", Bennett, M.J., Shadrack, J.H. and Levy, G. (Ed.) Embodying the Music and Death Nexus (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-766-520221007

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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