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Author Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-2004, author

Title Postmodern music, postmodern listening / by Jonathan D. Kramer ; edited by Robert Carl
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pubishing Inc., 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 372 pages)
Summary "Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of postmodernism in music. Kramer created a series of markers by which we can identify postmodern works. He suggests that the postmodern project actually creates a radically different relationship between the composer and listener. Written with wit, precision, and at times playfully subverting traditional tropes to make a very serious point about this difference, Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening leads us to a strongly grounded intellectual basis for stylistic description and an intuitive sensibility of what postmodernism in music entails. Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening is an examination of how musical postmodernism is not just a style or movement, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between composer and listener. The result is a multifaceted and provocative look at a critical turning point in music history, one whose implications we are only just beginning to understand"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Postmodernism.
Music: styles & genres.
20th century & contemporary classical music.
Theory of music & musicology.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Postmodernism
Form Electronic book
Author Carl, Robert, 1954- editor.
LC no. 2016004278
ISBN 9781501306037
1501306030
9781501306044
1501306049