July 30, 2003

I appear to be on a music recontextualization (someone give me a better term) kick these days. I managed to simultaneously discover and acquire both Brave Combo's Box of Ghosts, themes from the classical repretoir in a variety of modern styles, and Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits, covers of just-slightly-before-my-time cartoon themes by '90's bands. Both are great, though I'm having a hard time convincing anyone else of this, it seems. And now I absolutely must have a copy of The Langley Schools Music Project: "Innocence and Despair" (Amazon link). My coworkers will not be pleased.

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music rehabituation

music reification

music redeconstructifiappropriatituitation

music bebop a rebop a rhubarb pie



or yeah, well, I think recontextualization is a good term, but I'm the kind of person who coins things like "cross-pollination satire," so what do I know. Sounds like fun stuff.