BREAKCORE, OR THE CONTEMPORANEITY OF A REVIVED GENRE
Keywords:
nostalgia, desynchronization, anti-establishment, dromology, samplingAbstract
Over the decades, the internet has solidified itself as a space where representations of various socio-cultural traits of contemporary society are clearly demonstrated, and this is increasingly evident in artistic expression too. Breakcore appears as one of these elements, as a visual and auditory artistic movement, but also as a cultural figure of the internet. This contemporary style, despite being born within the underground youth and industrial subcultures of the 1990s, ended up evolving and being appropriated and incorporated by the internet during the 2010s. In this way, the original symbolism of breakcore is transfigured, moving from something focused on a geographical, punk, revolutionary segment, to something discarded of physical spaces and rituals, where clubs are replaced by social media. This transition of musical scenes is essential to understand breakcore sociologically, where we must take into account certain changes that recall compositional traits of the modern underground music scene, diffused on the internet.
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