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The concept of hauntology, as articulated by Mark Fisher, provides a critical framework for analyzing how contemporary music evokes nostalgia and lost futures. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine the concept of hauntology in music criticism and explore how sonic hauntings evoke feelings of lost futures and cultural memory.

August 19, 2026Contemporary Music Review

On Hauntology in Music and Musical Hauntings

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To examine the concept of hauntology in music criticism and explore how sonic hauntings evoke feelings of lost futures and cultural memory.
Critical textual analysis of music criticism and cultural theory, focusing on Mark Fisher's work on hauntology.
Theoretical examination of sonic aesthetics, cultural melancholy, and temporal disruption in modern music.
Demonstrates that hauntology operates as an aesthetic framework for processing cultural grief and unfulfilled socio-historical possibilities.
Identifies specific sonic tropes and historical resonances that musicians use to reflect contemporary psychological and cultural states.

Implication

Theoretical analysis uncovers the dynamics of hauntology in contemporary music, suggesting that lost futures and cultural memory deeply shape modern aesthetic forms.

Abstract

In music critic Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology + Lost Futures, he asks, ‘why hauntology?’ (Fisher 2022, 16). In the 2022 introduction to the second edition of F...

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Davismoon et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85636403308d306e2d6883 https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2026.2702312

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Theoretical analysis uncovers the dynamics of hauntology in contemporary music, suggesting that lost futures and cultural memory deeply shape modern aesthetic forms.

On Hauntology in Music and Musical Hauntings

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