Week 4: Literature

Week 4 aims to have you branch out artistically. This week, instead of being given a portion of a composition to build off of, you will be given a piece of media to consume.
The main goal of this week is to explore a larger prompt and to build up a piece that captures the theme and feel of the reference material. Additionally, week 4 is about pulling together a single, larger, coherent piece over the course of the week instead of 7 small individual pieces.

It is encouraged that you look back on your prior work over the course of the month and take inspiration from your various Composuary submissions. As part of your submission, you should provide references to your prior pieces that you used so fellow composers can appreciate how your piece was built off of the simpler themes tackled during the month.

Prompt : Nostalgia

This year's Composuary literature prompt focuses on the idea of endless nostalgia. The refusal for any idea or media to ever die, to ever not be resurrected and remade. This endless push for perpetual existence of worn out pop culture moments takes differs greatly from modernizing old stories to the current era (thinking of how Disney took public domain media to produce their Golden Age).

Pintrest members window-shop for experiences, behaviors, and goods they find
"inspirational"... They therfore curate "inspired"lives - lives they may not have,
but wish they did

                                          ~ Laurie McNeill, John David Zuern
                                            Online Lives 2.0: Introduction
                                            Biography, Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015

Primary Work

Additional Reading

While the prompt for this year focuses on those who are haunted by the ghosts of pop culture past, Tom Scott discusses the problem from people who become the ghosts of pop culture past

This idea of these pop culture moments is more thoroughly captured in the work of Jamie Loftus on her podcast 16th "16th Minute of Fame"