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Postmodern music, postmodern listening / by Jonathan D. Kramer ; edited by Robert Carl.

Author/creator Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-2004 author.
Other author/creatorCarl, Robert, 1954- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Descriptionxxvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Chapters on postmodern concepts of music. The nature and origins of musical postmodernism ; Postmodernism (not) defined ; Modernism, postmodernism, the avant garde, and their audiences -- Chapters on concepts of postmodern music. Postmodernism and related isms in today's music ; Unity, organicism, and challenges to their ubiquity ; Beyond unity ; Postmodern listening ; Postmodern musical time: Real or unreal? ; Surrealism, neoclassicism, and postmodernism -- Postmodern chapters on the concept of music. Economics, politics, technology, and appropriation ; Beyond the beyond: Postmodernism exemplified ; Non-musical artworks that exhibit traits found in musical postmodernism -- Postmodernism in the finale of Mahler's seventh symphony -- Unity and disunity in Nielsen's Sinfonia Semplice -- Appendix. Essays on postmodernism and Jonathan Kramer.
Abstract This book examines the concept of postmodernism in music. The author created a series of markers by which we can identify postmodern works. He suggests that the postmodern project actually creates a radically different relationship between the composer and listener. Written with wit, precision, and at times playfully subverting traditional tropes to make a very serious point about this difference, This book leads us to a strongly grounded intellectual basis for stylistic description and an intuitive sensibility of what postmodernism in music entails. The book is an examination of how musical postmodernism is not just a style or movement, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between composer and listener. The result is a multifaceted and provocative look at a critical turning point in music history, one whose implications we are only just beginning to understand.
General noteWith editor's introduction and preface by Jann Pasler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2016003590
ISBN9781501306020 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN1501306022 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781501306013 paperback
ISBN1501306014 paperback

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Music Music Stacks ML3845 .K8127 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold