CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by City Research Online City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Browning, J. ORCID: 0000-0001-7013-7959 (2020). Remaking Classical Music: Cultures of Creativity in Pleasure Garden. Twentieth-Century Music, 17(1), pp. 23-61. doi: 10.1017/s1478572219000355 This is the accepted version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/24586/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572219000355 Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/
[email protected] ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Remaking Classical Music: Cultures of Creativity in Pleasure Garden Joseph Browning Abstract Taking its theoretical orientation from Ortner’s distinction between ‘power’ and ‘projects’, this article considers the relationship between local artistic projects and the cultures in which they participate. I focus on Pleasure Garden, a collaborative project that spans site-specific installations, concerts and an album. Exploring a wide range of issues at stake in the creative process, including collaboration, gender, aesthetics, colonialism, the work concept, and commodification, I trace how Pleasure Garden’s creators variously reproduced and reworked dominant conventions, while at the same time pursuing their own distinctive commitments. Through this, I argue that Pleasure Garden’s creators negotiated a space that was inside, yet sometimes out of alignment with, what I call the ‘cultures of creativity’ associated with Western art music, the music industries, late capitalism, and neoliberalism.