Музика, емблема и културна идентичност
Music, Emblem and Cultural Identity

Summary/Abstract: This is an attempt, based on the emblematic type of symbol, to interpret the problem of cultural identification of a musical text from an unconventional point of view, where the artistic events are projected in diachronic plan rather than in synchronic one. Such a viewpoint focuses on the question concerning the indications of comparison between the symbol systems of two epochs, being far removed for centuries, even for millennia. This remoteness in time has beyond doubt an impact on the sense of the text, which changes, even transforms accordingly to the historical context. But here is the very risk: to impose strange, but at same time habitual for us, notions to cultures, arranged historically and logically quite differently, for the simple reason that we give them a contemporary meaning, disregarding one of the main conditions of the communication itself ­ communicating just like with different cultures, cultures other than ours. Analyzing the past epochs as differing ones give us the possibility to identify them culturally. At the same time it is a process of our own cultural identification being different from them and an opportunity to look from the side at our place in the history.

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