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Methodologies for Genre Hybridisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Robert Bentall
Robert Bentall*
Affiliation:
Leeds College of Music, 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7PD
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*Email: r.bentall@me.com
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Abstract

This article attempts to explore working methods for developing hybrid tendencies within electroacoustic music compositions. These working methods, such as the novel concept of reconstructive sampling, are each explored with musical examples given. The article opens by giving definitions of genre, and then explores hybridisation as a concept through ideas developed by Duff (2000), Waters (2000) and Frow (2015). While the article focuses on the musical output of the author, personal compositions are placed in a broader context through the discussion of other artists within the wider field of electronic music composition.

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Organised Sound , Volume 21 , Special Issue 2: Situating the Avant–Garde: Conformity and oppositional culture , August 2016 , pp. 117 - 126
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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