Música y deconstrucción

Music: here, a set of presupposed characteristics is intended, without which the «Musical Act» cannot exist: 1. Delimitation of the musical act within a pre-defined realm, aborting the potential socio-political permeation of its discourse. 2. Arrangement of the musical material according to imposed hierarchical models. 3. Categorical separation of differing elements, thereby preventing the existence of inbetween phenomena which might otherwise call into question the arbitrary nature of the fixed categories. 4. And last, but not least, continuity in the definition of what music should and should not be. Taking Derrida’s deconstructive procedures as a conceptual —but nonetheless operative— reference, to which philosophical and textual assumptions sharing similar origins with the musical assumptions are exposed, the present article contemplates if and how dogmas, power strategies, and indiscernable elements can be made apparent through the deconstruction of musical assumptions to which they subscribe; everything avoiding the impossible and contradictory extrapolation of philosophical constructs into the realm of the art, in pro of an observation and deconstruction of the musical problematic within its own reality, if we really can speak about «one».