Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815338208)

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 Gecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Bjk 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.

Author: Judy Lochhead
ISBN-10: 0815338201
ISBN-13: 9780815338208
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2001
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.38h x 5.69w x 0.85d