Hauntology (music)

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Hauntology is a music genre, movement or a loosely defined stylistic feature that evokes cultural memory and aesthetics of the past. It developed in the 2000s primarily among British electronic musicians, and typically draws on mid-century broadcast media, particularly British sources from the 1930s to the 1970s, including library music, film and TV soundtracks, psychedelia, and public information films; often through the use of sampling. The term was derived from philosopher Jacques Derrida's concept of the same name. In the mid-2000s, it was adapted by theorists Simon Reynolds and Mark Fisher. Hauntology is associated with the UK record labels Ghost Box and Trunk Records, in addition to artists such as The Caretaker, Burial, and Philip Jeck.

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