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It obscures sources of the actual semantic content, fragments, out of context. Music decontextualises intertexts, turns them into gibberish, peculiar for the lack of links and the formal logic and aesthetic beauty of the music absolves Roxane from actually saying anything.
When the musician takes over power, the logic of words and reasoning must yield its place to sentiment. Novels which deal with music seem to stress that the two arts have a great deal in common and can co-operate in creating an artistic effect.
At the same time, this collaboration rests on the essential differences between the arts and thus problematises limits and boundaries of each respective art form and the space of overlap that they share. Music and Development. Despite a great deal of innovative thinking about the collaborations and blendings of different art forms, both fictional works depicting musical themes and the discourses dealing with them are often characterised by a somewhat nostalgic conservative streak.
Nostalgia is largely a matter of sentiment; conservatism, however is more problematic as it implies a rigidity of thought and a willingness to let the past govern the present and future. For one thing, literary texts dealing with such themes as the representation of music in literature tend to reinscribe binary oppositions of high and low culture as rather separate areas of cultural production.
Neatly compartmentalised according to taste, these novels address themselves to readers with an interest in specific styles of music and reaffirm the familiar. As with novels rewriting previously explored themes or materials, the possibility for readers to recognise cultural elements and the invitation to readerly collaboration in decoding links to extra-literary reality are a large part of the attraction of books about music: they become intermedial comfort zones with the music depicted acting as an aid to identification.
This places them in a curious position in so far as they function like intermedial forms of fan fiction, dependent spin-offs which retain a strong connection to the past. Recently, the seeming paradox of shuffling between clearly segregated selves and others is increasingly conceptualised in terms of flexible boundaries and dynamic processual readings of the interaction between identity and alterity. The overlapping zone is the most vibrant space of cultural exchange, or change of any description, which is increasingly seen as a constructive, positive place, rather than the conflictual obstacle course early critics assumed [6].
The stories revolve around a protagonist who defines him- or herself largely in relation to a particular art form, and in the process questions western and other notions of development, progress, social assimilation as well as the status of the arts and artists. Whether subverted, experimented with or turned into a critique of the genre, these variations of the bildungsroman negotiate alterity on several different levels individual-society, art-life, normal-extraordinary and in the process raise questions about the purpose and potential of artistic representation.
In fact, development of any description is conspicuously absent from the narrative. Despite her divine singing, Roxane Coss is essentially a rather flat character, in that there is not much development possible for a character who is represented as a paragon of perfection from the first lines of the novel onwards.
She represents an ideal, but one that does not really grow. Even as she ends up getting married to Gen, who supposedly is the narrative instance relating their months of captivity, she never quite materialises as a real character.
Even as she begins to wear ordinary clothes and eventually embarks on an affair with Mr. Hosokawa, the narrative voice keeps observing on how extraordinary and charismatic she is, and thus every mention of her carries an undertone of wonderment and underlines distance rather than approximation.
Like children, colonised or other disenfranchised individuals, they are deprived of self-responsibility, and most of them actually experience relief at this reduction of their power. Their regression into disempowerment is variously depicted as a return to childhood and a return to an animal-like status:.
They could no longer plot to overpower a terrorist or consider a desperate run at the door. They were considerably less likely to be accused of doing something they did not do. The community of terrorists and hostages is indeed depicted as dependent on the outside world as a group of children on their parents, or a band of animals on their keepers Patchett, , Whatever precarious culture they have developed as pointed out in a review by Janet Maslin is ultimately achieved by processes of negative evolution, of forgetting, suppression, unlearning and regression.
Gen, the self-effacing translator who is a genius at making himself into a tool rather than an individual unsurprisingly epitomises this reversal:. Gen was born to learn. But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information.
He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn. Other characters are unaware of their regression. While music provides some form of uplift, it however cancels out thought and enslaves the inmates of the presidential palace mentally and emotionally, to complement their physical imprisonment.
Conclusions: Trivial Pursuits and Escapes. They are in fact the hostages of the invisible and nameless state forces who finally kill them, an act which does not come across as a long-awaited liberation but an imperialist murder of a precarious, rare and unique form of civilisation.
Numerous characters fleetingly consider their possibilities to escape from the mansion, discarding all of them with the most spurious of pretexts, and indeed, to stay in the timeless bubble of the hostage tie-in constitutes the most complete form of escapism imaginable, a retreat from the constraints of adulthood and leadership, self-responsibility and social demands, and an overall regression excused by a violence which has long lost its threatening potential and is symbolically reduced to defeat in chess or soccer and other games.
Captivity frees the hostages from their customary freedom, and music collaborates with imprisonment in offering an aesthetic form captivity that glosses over the disempowerment aspects. My observations on the function of music in this novel are part of an incipient enquiry into a symptomatic use of art as an escapist tool in the late s and early s.
Music in Bel Canto creates an illusion of order, structure and even cultural improvement, but essentially expresses a search for role models. What is certainly relevant to my analysis is an element of anachronism and a backward-glancing search for stability and a reliable concept of culture. This artistically and politically motivated search does not merely involve music but crucially seeks to resituate literature itself.
Round about the middle of the novel, Gen is recruited by one of the Russian hostages by the name of Fyodorov to interpret his declaration of love to Roxane Coss.
It culminates in his revelations about a valuable book containing reproductions of impressionist art works which his grandmother owned and periodically showed to her grandchildren, exhorting them to observe strict rituals of cleansing and care in handling the book before they had a chance to view the pictures and hear varying ekphrastic stories about their background.
In this vignette on the meaning of art as an education in aesthetic appreciation Fyodorov needs to return to his childhood to find an experience of undisturbed, focussed appreciation of any kind of art. This album is much warmer and very intriguing. A lot of great ambient soundscapes crossed with some classic Dead Can Dance -style singing. At least on that song. Ecto priority: Highly recommended for lovers of ethereal music.
Neile Must have. The German song is based on H. Andersen's "The Story of a Mother. Well, I do. I think "Summer" is a very effective track, and this album is much less mechanical-sounding than their other two in my opinion.
Anneli has the most compelling voice I have heard in quite some time. The comparisons to the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance are inevitable, but the unique sound of Anneli Drecker and Nils Johansen on this CD make you realize just how futile those comparisons end up being. Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of the aforementioned bands and really like what they do. It's just an apples and oranges situation.
The foreign sound is carried forth with the song "die geschichte einer mutter" based on a tale by H. Fantastic stuff. It's definitely the most mainstream-sounding thing Bel Canto has ever done, and I'm not too sure that's a good thing except maybe for sales, and who cares about those??
If it weren't for Anneli 's incredibly distinct voice, I never would have guessed that it was Bel Canto. It's a nice little song, but if the rest of the album doesn't vary much from the sound of "Rumour" it will be a huge disappointment for me, after the gloriousness of Shimmering Warm and Bright.
Except for Anneli 's nearly indescribable voice how can it sound so crystalline-arctic-nordic at the same time it's so exotically, tropically, spicy? There's a swingy Motown groove to the bassline and a dance beat you've heard a million times. It's a song that would sound perfectly natural coming out of Annie Lennox 's mouth; maybe even Alison Moyet 's.
The extra tracks seem to be alternate recordings, rather than just remixes: The vocals on the '12"' edit are very different. At any rate, jury's out till I hear the album. It doesn't help that the music on both sounds very similar. Definitely a departure for Bel Canto, and I wasn't sure I liked it at first, but a few of the songs have really grown on me.
But I like it a lot. So I say "tay" to the naysayers. This one is definitely ecto-camp and worth a listen esp. But I finally have to bite the bullet and say that I'm saddened by the direction Bel Canto's taken here. But the changes in Bel Canto's style that Magic Box exhibits really don't feel like artistic growth to me.
On their earlier albums, they were inventing things. They followed no rules and built their own bridges. Of course there were shades and echoes of modern pop; they certainly didn't exist outside that context. But they circled it, nipping at its heels, not so much scurrying a bit ahead of it as shimmering a little above.
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