Citation from academic music as an instrument of dialogization of modern rock

Abstract

The article reveals some peculiarities of the dialogization of modern rock by citing academic composers’ works. The research, based on systematics of citation specifics proposed by A. Denisov, which reveals the author’s approach to the “alien” text, presents the substantive and compositional aspects of the academic quotation usage in rock music at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries. The most expressive and stylistically polar examples of appealing to musical texts of the professional composer tradition are used as material. The study draws conclusions about the citation semantics, which formation mechanism depends on: the choice of material for citation, the context in which the quotation appears, the type of its transformation, the density of use of the cited material. Taking into account these factors, the article demonstrates diametrically opposed creative side by rock bands and individual musicians in the issue of citing, such as Symphony X and Ligro, Anorexia Nervosa and Muse, Hollenthon and Slav de Hren, R. Williams and J. Zorn.