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Postmodernism in music is not a distinct musical style, but rather refers to music of the postmodern era. Postmodernist music, on the other hand, shares characteristics with postmodernist art —that is, art that comes after and reacts against modernism (see Modernism in Music ).
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Postmodernism in Music Postmodernism is a term that has been used extensively to describe general trends and specific works in many different cultural contexts, including literature, cinema, architecture and the visual arts. This Introduction clari-fies the term, and explores its relevance for music through discussion of
This book: • outlines and addresses the problems of defining what we mean by postmodernism • explores when postmodernism begins • engages with a broad range of literature and reference sources, inviting wider reading and thinking • uses specific musical examples to present ways of interpreting music that can be defined as postmodernist
- Kenneth Gloag
- Paperback
Postmodernism in Music. Kenneth Gloag. Paperback / ISBN: 978-0-521-15157-3 / 205pp / £16.99. Postmodernism is a term that has been used extensively to describe general trends and specific works in many different cultural contexts, including literature, cinema, architecture and the visual arts.
Jan 21, 2014 · Chapters introducing postmodernism as an aesthetic phenomenon emerging in a sketchily defined period (which may or may not have ended) and the influence of postmodern thinking on musicology are followed by chapters that discuss postmodern music either thematically (ch. 3 on anti-modernism and nostalgia; ch. 4 on ‘the challenge of the past ...
- J. P. E. Harper-Scott
- 2013
Grounded on the idea that postmodern music is defined not by composers but by listeners, this essay challenges musicological writing that since the early 1990s has sought both to illuminate an ideology of postmodernism and to identify elements of a postmodernist style.
the time structures of music and music perception: postmodern musical time to be created at least as. by composers, to differ from one listener to. fragmented, discontinuous, nonlinear, and multiple. multiplicity of musical time—that music can experience different senses of directionality, narratives, and/or different rates of motion, indeed ...
