The 'world' before globalisation

Moroccan elements in The Incredible String Band's music

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ID4303997
AuthorsOliver Lovesey (0000-0002-0160-3749, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume30
Issue1
Pages127-143
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143010000668
OpenAlexW2124588624
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited20

Before the advent of 'world' music in the culture of globalisation, The Incredible String Band in the 1960s added elements of Moroccan and other international music into their work. In the context of an exploration of the band's journey to the east, this article argues that the ISB's 'exotic' sounds became the aural signifier of the psychedelic, and that the ISB's aesthetic of appropriation veered from fetishisation, and also homage and parody, to ritualised adaptation. The ISB's pre-'world' use of international music was self-consciously naive, but it may have enabled later modes of cultural appropriation

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Globalization · Literature · Political science · Popular music · Sociology · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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