Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Commemorative Mimesis and Vocal Assertion in Red Velvet's Borrowing of J. S. Bach's Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3.
In the syncretic eclecticism of K-pop song production, the quotation of themes from classical works has become a recurrent trope. This paper examines the case of Red Velvet's borrowing of the Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 by J. S. Bach, BWV 1068 in their hit single "Feel My Rhythm" (2022). In this...
| Publicado en: | Music Theory Spectrum Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 78 - 96 |
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Spring2026
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