The concept of ‘entangled history,’ coined by Shalini Randeria and Sebastian Conrad in the 1990s, has become more and more important in historical and cultural studies over the last two decades. ‘Entanglement’ is one of the concepts which try to overcome the partition of historical and cultural research along national lines and to take into account phenomena that occur across state borders and can only be analyzed from a transnational perspective. In the words of Conrad and Randeria (2002, 17): ‘history’ is a “complex network of shared histories,” which can only be investigated by transnational and relational perspectives (cf. Conrad/Randeria 2002, 14). As the authors stress, these new perspectives of the interconnectedness of the world and of processes of interaction and transfer do not tell us anything about the modalities of those interactions. Furthermore, they should not hide the fact that inequalities, relations of power and violence have always been and still are part of those processes.
Gianpaolo CHIRIACÒ, Gerhild FUCHS, Birgit MERTZ-BAUMGARTNER, 2022, Entangled Histories and Voices: An Introduction, in Archiv für Textmusikforschung, 07,2 I.