The concept of tradition in alternative rock based on a hermeneutic reading from the Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical proposal

Abstract

This text is focused around the question of how the concept of tradition can work in alternative rock based on a hermeneutical reading from the philosophical proposal of Hans-Georg Gadamer, which is meant to, it is pretended to recognize how tradition has been and continues to be present in each decade until now within the alternative rock genre. From this conception, there is a proposal for three ways to do interpret such concept. The first one takes the concept of tradition elaborated by Gadamer to discover the possible relation of such concept (tradition) within the history of alternative rock and contemporaneity. The second one, has to do with the way in which, the concept of tradition operates and is current in the present through the history of alternative rock and somehow continues to be present in contemporaneity. Last, the rocker is observed, as the main character of this story; he is the one capable of calling out the supposed normality, he is the one who questions, is the one that lurks with his back towards the present, without losing the panorama of the past. The tasks of the contemporary man, is to try to rescue a little bit of the thought that preceded him and based on this, to set his view towards the future, without this view to the past being interpreted as a regression but instead as a comprehension, an understanding on the shoulders of giants.