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 note | With editor's introduction and preface by Jann Pasler. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2016003590 |
ISBN | 9781501306020 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1501306022 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9781501306013 paperback |
ISBN | 1501306014 paperback |