Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls
In this article I focus on the genre of ‘vaporwave’, using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of ‘memory play’. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of lar...
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| description | In this article I focus on the genre of ‘vaporwave’, using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of ‘memory play’. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of largely background musics such as muzak®, 1980s elevator music and new age ambience. Vaporwave's ‘memory play’ is a project that takes remembering as its audio-visual aesthetic. The pleasure of vaporwave is therefore understood as a pleasure of remembering for the sake of the act of remembering itself. To explore this theme, I examine vaporwave's memory play using the terms of Chris Healy's ‘compensatory nostalgia’, as well as the idea of ‘ersatz nostalgia’ as discussed by Arjun Appadurai and Svetlana Boym. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-601412018-06-01T01:51:49Z Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls Glitsos, Laura In this article I focus on the genre of ‘vaporwave’, using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of ‘memory play’. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of largely background musics such as muzak®, 1980s elevator music and new age ambience. Vaporwave's ‘memory play’ is a project that takes remembering as its audio-visual aesthetic. The pleasure of vaporwave is therefore understood as a pleasure of remembering for the sake of the act of remembering itself. To explore this theme, I examine vaporwave's memory play using the terms of Chris Healy's ‘compensatory nostalgia’, as well as the idea of ‘ersatz nostalgia’ as discussed by Arjun Appadurai and Svetlana Boym. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/60141 10.1017/S0261143017000599 Cambridge University Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Glitsos, Laura Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
| title | Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
| title_full | Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
| title_short | Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
| title_sort | vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/60141 |