Postmodernism in music
By: Kenneth Gloag
Series: Cambridge introductions to music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521151573
Subjects: Music; Postmodernism; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: "Postmodernism is a term that has been used extensively to describe general trends and specific works in many different cultural contexts. ... This introduction clarifies the term and explores its relevance for music through discussion of specific musical examples from the 1950s to the present day, providing an engagement between theory and practice. ... It 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, and uses specific musical examples to present ways of interpreting music that can be defined as postmodernist."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.