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Quotation, Psychogeography, and the ‘Journey Form’ in the Music Theatre of Bernhard Lang and Chico Mello

A psychogeographic reading of the music theatre works of composers Bernhard Lang and Chico Mello can aid an understanding of the more subtle approaches to ‘quotation’, borrowing, and intertextuality in their works. These aspects are signalled by competing cultural geographies which also indicate the composers' differing experiences of place. This analysis will allow for a greater understanding of competing cultural geographies and concepts of ‘postminimalism’ and ‘postmodernism’ in the two composers' works and borrowing practices. It will also explore the link between the composers' biographies, quotation, and repetition, by introducing concepts of psychogeography, radicant aesthetics, and Nicholas Bourriaud's ‘journey form’ to an aesthetic approach to their forms. It will conclude by examining how the ‘journey form’ might itself be considered a cultural borrowing practice within a psychogeographic framework.