2013
DOI: 10.1111/musa.12013
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Hardcore Re‐visioned: Reading and Misreading in Sonic Youth, 1987–8

Abstract: This article uses Harold Bloom's concept of revision, defined as a reading that is simultaneously a re‐interpretation, to examine how the alternative band Sonic Youth transformed the hardcore style. Sonic Youth embraced hardcore in the early 1980s as a means of expanding beyond their no‐wave origins, but because of a cultural gulf between them and other hardcore bands, their successful appropriation of hardcore necessarily involved fragmentation and ironic reversal of its stylistic elements, combined with form… Show more

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“…Such an investigation is not wholly new in analytical studies of popular music. For example, Joti Rockwell (2009), Timothy Koozin (2011), and David Heetderks (2013 have investigated the importance of fretboard topography in their studies of rhythm, form, and pitch. Indeed, Koozin goes so far as to state that "guitar fretboard topography and the rhythmic actions of guitar playing are significant performative elements that have not been fully considered in studies of form, harmony, and rhythm in pop-rock music" ( [1]).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Such an investigation is not wholly new in analytical studies of popular music. For example, Joti Rockwell (2009), Timothy Koozin (2011), and David Heetderks (2013 have investigated the importance of fretboard topography in their studies of rhythm, form, and pitch. Indeed, Koozin goes so far as to state that "guitar fretboard topography and the rhythmic actions of guitar playing are significant performative elements that have not been fully considered in studies of form, harmony, and rhythm in pop-rock music" ( [1]).…”
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confidence: 99%