UID:
almafu_9959660703702883
Format:
1 online resource (401 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-5013-0604-9
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1-5013-0603-0
Content:
"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.
Note:
Editor's Introduction by Robert Carl -- Preface by Jann Pasler -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- -- BOOK 1. -- IDEAS -- PART I. CHAPTERS ON POSTMODERN CONCEPTS OF MUSIC -- Chapter 1: The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism -- Chapter 2: Postmodernism (Not) Defined -- Chapter 3: Modernism, Postmodernism, the Avant Garde, and Their Audiences -- PART II. CHAPTERS ON CONCEPTS OF POSTMODERN MUSIC -- Chapter 4: Postmodernism and Related Isms in Today's Music -- Chapter 5: Unity, Organicism, and Challenges to Their Ubiquity -- Chapter 6: Beyond Unity -- Chapter 7: Postmodern Listening -- Chapter 8: Postmodern Musical Time -- Chapter 9: Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Postmodernism -- PART III. POSTMODERN CHAPTERS ON THE CONCEPT OF MUSIC -- Chapter 10: Economics, Politics, Technology, and Appropriation -- Chapter 11: Beyond the Beyond: Postmodernism Exemplified -- BOOK II. -- CASE HISTORIES -- Chapter 12: Postmodernism in the Finale of Mahler's Seventh Symphony -- Chapter 13: Unity and Disunity in Nielsen's Sixth Symphony -- BOOK III. -- ESSAYS ON POSTMODERNISM AND JONATHAN KRAMER -- Editor's note -- 1. Postmodern Musings, Postmodern Performing by Deborah Bradley-Kramer -- 2. Are We Postmodern Yet? By Brad Garton -- 3. Music in the Anthropocene by John Luther Adams -- 4. On (re-) Hearing Kramer: Five Reactions to Postmodernism Music, Postmodern Listening by John Halle -- 5. Uncommon Kindness: Reflections on Jonathan Kramer by Duncan Neilson -- 6. Kramer Post Kramer by Martin Bresnick -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also published in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5013-0601-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501306051
