Remixing Wong Kar-wai
Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion
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2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3117-8 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
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Giorgio Biancorosso examines how filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s use of pre-existing music to create the soundtracks for his films constitutes a practice of musical remixing that challenges conventional notions of musical composition.
Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In Remixing Wong Kar-wai, Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong’s cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing. Wong’s irrepressible penchant for poaching music from other films—whether old Chinese melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters, or European art films—subsumes familiar music under his own brand of cinema. As Wong combs through musical and cinematic archives and splices disparate music together, exceedingly well-known music loses its previous associations and acquires an infinite new constellation of meanings in his films. Drawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of bricolage, Biancorosso contends that Wong’s borrowing is akin to a practice of creative destruction in which Wong becomes a bricoleur who remixes music at hand to create new and complete, self-sustaining statements. By outlining Wong’s modus operandi of indiscriminate borrowing and remixing, Biancorosso prompts readers to reconsider the significance of transforming preexisting music into new compositions for film and beyond.
Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In Remixing Wong Kar-wai, Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong’s cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing. Wong’s irrepressible penchant for poaching music from other films—whether old Chinese melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters, or European art films—subsumes familiar music under his own brand of cinema. As Wong combs through musical and cinematic archives and splices disparate music together, exceedingly well-known music loses its previous associations and acquires an infinite new constellation of meanings in his films. Drawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of bricolage, Biancorosso contends that Wong’s borrowing is akin to a practice of creative destruction in which Wong becomes a bricoleur who remixes music at hand to create new and complete, self-sustaining statements. By outlining Wong’s modus operandi of indiscriminate borrowing and remixing, Biancorosso prompts readers to reconsider the significance of transforming preexisting music into new compositions for film and beyond.
Giorgio Biancorosso is Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong and author of Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Musical Borrowing Redux 1
1. Splicing 28
2. Poaching 63
3. Owning 87
4. Redressing 117
5. Oblivion 158
Notes 187
Bibliography 209
Index 221
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 51 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3117-4 / 1478031174 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3117-8 / 9781478031178 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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