ABSTRACT
What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions, this ground-breaking collection gathers together for the first time essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, covering a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film music, and popular music. Topics include: the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music of Górecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Björk and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films as The Bridges of Madison County, Batman, Bullworth, and He Got Game; and comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music. Also includes 20 musical examples.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I
Theoretical Foundations and Debates
part II|57 pages
Scaling the High/Low Divide
chapter 8|17 pages
Postmodern Polyamory or Postcolonial Challenge?
part III|67 pages
Compositional Voices
chapter 12|14 pages
Resistant Strains of Postmodernism:
chapter 14|13 pages
Collage vs. Compositional Control:
part IV|59 pages
Linking the Visual and Aural Domains