Aguia Betancourt, Nicolas
(2023)
Poetics of Memory: Transmodern Echoes in Works of Gamaliel Churata, Olly Wilson, and Mathew Rosenblum, and El Tríptico del Laykha [Original Composition].
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
This dissertation departs from the notion of memory, understood as the permanence of the past in the lived present, to propose a philosophical transnational exegesis that connects works by two American composers, Olly Wilson (1937-2018) and Mathew Rosenblum (1954); and works by Peruvian philosopher and writer Gamaliel Churata (1897-1969). I focus on Wilson’s musical composition for tenor and electronic sound titled Sometimes (1976), based on the African American Spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” that dates back to the time of chattel slavery in the United States; and Mathew Rosenblum’s clarinet concerto Lament/Witches’ Sabbath (2017), a piece that narrates his grandmother’s escape from the 1919 Proskurov Pogrom, through recordings of her testimony and Ukrainian and Jewish laments added to the musical fabric. Finally, I focus on Gamaliel Churata’s literary works Resurrección de los Muertos (2013) and El Pez de Oro (2012), to delineate a philosophy of memory that emerges from the epistemic dialogue he establishes between Western philosophy, and Quechua and Aymaran epistemologies. By expanding on Enrique Dussel’s concept of transmodernity,—notion that refers to the creative assimilation of modernity’s cultural legacies by the populations subalternized by European colonization and American hegemony—I argue that Churata’s philosophy of memory illuminates the conditions of possibility for assimilating modern cultural legacies and lays out the epistemological foundations for constructing the concept of a “transmodern aesthetic”. The notion of a transmodern aesthetic enables me to link Wilson, Rosenblum, and Churata’s cultural production through a transnational and transhistorical perspective.
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Unpublished |
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| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Aguia Betancourt, Nicolas | nia42@pitt.edu | nia42 | |
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| Date: |
11 May 2023 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
13 March 2023 |
| Approval Date: |
11 May 2023 |
| Submission Date: |
20 March 2023 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
166 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Music |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Music, Memory, Transmodernity, Philosophy of Music |
| Date Deposited: |
11 May 2023 14:40 |
| Last Modified: |
11 May 2023 14:40 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/44473 |
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Poetics of Memory: Transmodern Echoes in Works of Gamaliel Churata, Olly Wilson, and Mathew Rosenblum, and El Tríptico del Laykha [Original Composition]. (deposited 11 May 2023 14:40)
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