Postmodern music/postmodern thought / edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lochhead, Judith Irene.

Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Series:

Studies in contemporary music and culture ; v. 4.

Studies in contemporary music and culture ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Routledge, [publisher not identified], [2002]

Summary:

This book is the first collection of essays to address postmodernism from a decidedly musicological point of view. What makes music "postmodern"? How should we consider such music in relation to other music, and in relation to other postmodern art forms? Though literature, architecture, film, and cultural studies have all enjoyed extended postmodernist critiques, music has experienced a relative neglect, even while so many popular artists of the last decade, such as Beck and Bjork, have utilized postmodern concepts and techniques. Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought includes discussions of these performers as well as composers of concert music and jazz, and broaches such topics as theoretical foundations, the "high style/low style" dichotomy, and the use of postmodern music in visual media.

Contents:

Section I Theoretical Foundations and Debates

Chapter 2 The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism / Jonathan D. Kramer 13

Chapter 3 Reflections of Surrealism in Postmodern Musics / Anne LeBaron 27

Chapter 4 Postmodernism and Art Music in the German Debate / Joakim Tillman 75

Chapter 5 Music and Musical Practices in Postmodernity / Timothy D. Taylor 93

Chapter 6 Postmodern Architecture/Postmodern Music / Jane Piper Clendinning 119

Chapter 7 Feminine/Feminist? In Quest of Names with No Experience (Yet) / Martin Scherzinger 141

Section II Scaling the High/Low Divide

Chapter 8 Postmodern Polyamory or Postcolonial Challenge? Cornership's Dialogue from West, to East, to West / Renee T. Coulombe 177

Chapter 9 Production vs. Reception in Postmodernism: The Gorecki Case / Luke Howard 195

Chapter 10 "Where's It At": Postmodern Theory and the Contemporary Musical Field / David Brackett 207

Section III Compositional Voices

Chapter 11 Music, Postmodernism, and George Rochberg's Third String Quartet / Mark Berry 235

Chapter 12 Resistant Strains of Postmodernism: The Music of Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough / Ross Feller 249

Chapter 13 Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism / Paul Attinello 263

Chapter 14 Collage vs. Compositional Control: The Interdependency of Modernist and Postmodernist Approaches in the Work of Mauricio Kagel / Bjorn Heile 287

Section IV Linking the Visual and Aural Domains

Chapter 15 Race and Reappropriation: Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland / Krin Gabbard 303

Chapter 16 The Politics of Feminism, Postmodernism, and Rock: Revisited, with Reference to Parmar's Righteous Babes / E. Ann Kaplan 323

Chapter 17 Natural Born Killers: Music and Image in Postmodern Film / Jason Hanley 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815338201

OCLC:

45766729