Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought

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.

Joseph Auner is Associate Professor of Music at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and General Editor of Garland's Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture series. Judy Lochhead is Associate Professor of Music at SUNY Stony Brook.

Series' Editor Forward Joseph Auner Section I: Theoretical Foundations and Debates 1. Introduction Judy Lockhead 2. The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism Jonathan D. Kramer 3. Reflections of Surrealism in Postmodern Musics Anne LeBaron 4. Postmodernism and Art Music in the German Debate Jonathan Tillman 5. Music and Musical Practices in Postmodernity Timothy D. Taylor 6. Postmodern Architecture/Postmodern Music Jane Piper Clendinning 7. Feminine/Feminist? In Quest of Names with No Experiences (Yet) Martin Scherzinger Section II: Scaling the High/Low Divide 8. Postmodern Polyamory or Postcolonial Challenge? Cornershop's Dialogue from West, to East, to West. Renee Coulombe 9. Production vs. Reception in Postmodernism: The Gorecki Case Luke Howard 10. Where It's At?: Postmodern Theory and the Contemporary Musical Field David Brackett Section III. Compositional Voices 11. Music, Postmodernism, and George Rochberg's Third String Quartet Mark Berry 12 Resistant Strains of Postmodernism: The Music of Helmet Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough Ross Feller 13. Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism Brian Ferneyhough 14. Collage vs. Compositional Control: The Interdependency of Modernist and Postmodernist Approaches in the Work of Mauricio Kagel Bjorn Heile Section IV. Linking the Visual and Aural Domains 15. Race and Reappropriation: Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copland Krin Gabbard 16. The Politics of Feminism, Postmodernism, and Rock: Revisited, with Reference to Parmar's Righteous Babes E. Ann Kaplan 17. Natural Born Killers: Music and Image in Postmodern Film Jason Henley Contributors