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Stefan Östersjö

Stefan Östersjö

Senior lecturer

Stefan Östersjö

Historically authentic truths (the hat trick) : Facts, fancies and footnotes

Author

  • William Brooks
  • Stefan Östersjö
  • Jeremy J.Jez Wells

Summary, in English

Footnotes, a composition written between 1983 and 1985 by a composer allegedly named William Brooks, was recorded between 2011 and 2018 by guitarist Stefan Östersjö and sound engineer Jez Wells, with the help of William Brooks, musicologist. It became evident to the three collaborators that the overall project required the construction of a set of different identities for each participant: guitar, guitarist; score, composer; hardware, engineer. This chapter traces the construction of, distinction between and eventual representation of those identities. It considers the extent to which a single entity - personality, place, artifact or historical event - can be regarded as a collection of irreconcilable differences, whether those differences can be constituted as a series of masks or persona and whether anything can truly be said to reside behind those masks.

Publishing year

2021-01-01

Language

English

Pages

183-193

Publication/Series

Music and Heritage : New Perspectives on Place-making and Sonic Identity

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Music

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781000363166
  • ISBN: 9780367359836