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Tim Mahoney, Hardcore Music Ontologies, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 83, Issue 1, Winter 2025, Pages 71–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpae051
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Abstract
Hardcore increases the speed, intensity, and contradictions of punk rock. Considering prevailing theories of rock music ontologies in the light of hardcore art practices provides reasons to rethink what we thought. Hardcore shows how recording-centered ontologies, underemphasizing what goes into playback, miss the materiality of some recording artworks. Hardcore art practices also show how performance-centered ontologies force us to divorce the played music from its full, embodied performanced artwork. In both cases, I highlight hardcore art practices and how they conceive of artworks in a more multi-faceted fashion than either predominant view can fully capture.