Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought

Judy Lochhead (Curatore)

Joseph Auner (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Inc, 2001

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.

• Curatore: Judy Lochhead, Joseph Auner
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Collana: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
• Anno: 2001
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 392 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 890 gr.
• EAN: 9780815338192

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