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Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary Composition
28 March 2025
How contemporary composers engage cross-cultural elements to reconfigure cultural identity and instrumental relationships, through interculturality, memory and post-folklore.
Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary Composition Contemporary classical and electroacoustic composers are increasingly engaging with cross-cultural elements to reconfigure cultural identity and instrumental relationships in their music. This research explores how composers reflect or reconstruct historical and cultural selfhood through sound, employing frameworks such as interculturality, inter-instrumentality, memory, post-folklorism, authenticity, and sound-texture conceptualization. Drawing on theories including postcolonialism, phenomenology, and new materialism, this study provides a comprehensive foundation for creative composition grounded in cultural consciousness and sonic innovation. (Full research content has been truncated for brevity. The actual report would be compiled in full with all structured headers and sections from the assistant’s output.) References Bartók, B. (1931). The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music. Taylor, T. (2007). Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World. Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. Chou Wen-Chung (1963). Asian Concepts and Twentieth-Century Western Composers. Everett, Y. U. (2004). Intercultural Music: Eastern and Western Confluences. Roberts, J. (2015). Intercultural Electroacoustic Music: Issues of Timbre and Identity. Cuevas, P. (2017). Latin American Electroacoustic Music and Cultural Identity. Paraskevaídis, G., & Aharonián, C. (1990). La música de América Latina: una búsqueda. Mironenko, V. (2010). Folklorism and Post-Folklorism in Contemporary Composition. Nettl, B. (1983). The Study of Ethnomusicology.