Postmodernity S Musical Pasts

Author : Tina Frühauf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783274963

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Postmodernity's Musical Pasts by Tina Frühauf Pdf

Postmodernity's Musical Pasts considers music after 1945 as a representation of concepts such as "historicity" and "temporality". The volume understands postmodernity as a period in which both modernism and postmodernism co-exist. It is attracted to a wider interpretation of "historicity" that focuses on the complex nexus of past-present-future. "Historicity" is understood as leaning closely on "temporality", generally thought of as the linear progression of past, present and future. The volume broadens the absolutist understanding of temporality to include processes which can occur in circular, spiral, transcending and other formations. The book covers an extensive spectrum of topics from classical to popular and neo-traditional musics to concerns of the disciplines of musicology. Such a wide range of topics from both the centre and the periphery of the musicological canon mirrors the eclectic and diverse nature of the postwar era itself. The first section investigates how to understand manifestations of the past in musical composition with regard to time, on the one hand, and with regard to genre, style and idiom, on the other. A second section shows how time and history manifest themselves in art music. A third section takes the contrasts and transitional moments of post-1945 practices further by looking at the temporality of reception from different angles. A final part investigates questions of nostalgia and temporalities of belonging. TINA FR HAUF is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York and serves on the faculty of The Graduate Center, CUNY. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Arnold, Susana Asensio Llamas, Georg Burgstaller, Caitlin Carlos, Daniela Fugellie, Tina Fr hauf, John Koslovsky, Lawrence Kramer, Beate Kutschke, Laurenz L tteken, Max Noubel, Joshua S. Walden

Author : Jonathan D. Kramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501306044

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Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening by Jonathan D. Kramer Pdf

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.

Author : Judy Lochhead,Joseph Auner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135717780

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Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought by Judy Lochhead,Joseph Auner Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520918429

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Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural Practice, he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.

Author : Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134743094

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Encyclopedia of Postmodernism by Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research agendas and general interests in contemporary cultural, historical, literary and philosophical issues. Since its inception in the 1960s, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that many scholars would argue defines our era. Postmodernism, in its various configurations, has consistently challenged concepts of selfhood, knowledge formation, aesthetics, ethics, history and politics. This Encyclopedia offers a wide-range of perspectives on postmodernism that illustrates the plurality of this critical concept that is so much part of our current intellectual debates. In this regard, the volume does not adhere to a single definition of postmodernism as much as it documents the use of the term across a variety of academic and cultural pursuits. The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, it must be noted, resists simply presenting postmodernism as a new style among many styles occuring in the post-disciplinary academy. Documenting the use of the term acknowledges that postmodernism has a much deeper and long-lasting effect on academic and cultural life. In general, the volume rests on the understanding that postmodernism is not so much a style as it is an on-going process, a process of both disintegration and reformation.

Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521151573

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Postmodernism in Music by Kenneth Gloag Pdf

What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.

Author : Zarko Cvejić,Ana Petrov
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443857710

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The Crisis in the Humanities by Zarko Cvejić,Ana Petrov Pdf

This volume will appeal to the reader interested in the so-called “long crisis in the humanities” and transdisciplinary approaches as a possible way out of this. It comprises a selection of 23 essays by both established and young scholars from the United States, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, coming from a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art, critical theory, ethnography, feminism, film studies, gender and queer theory, literary theory, Marxism, musicology, philosophy, and sociology, among others. What brings all these together here is the intention to advance transdisciplinarity, both in theory and in practice, in their scholarly work, as a possible solution to this purported crisis, the subject of heated debate in academia since the 1960s, revolving around the “crisis of the subject” and the humanities’ positioning as a field of research. The book examines the place of the humanities in contemporary society, and challenges the ways that issues that form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses. It reflects on the status of the disciplines in the humanities, and explores the links between history, culture, media, and art.

Author : Theo d' Haen,Theo d'. Haen,Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051832303

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History and Post-war Writing by Theo d' Haen,Theo d'. Haen,Johannes Willem Bertens Pdf

Author : Barbara Hanfstingl,Timo Gnambs,Peter Adriaan Edelsbrunner,Jana Uher,Ulrich Dettweiler
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832519448

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From “Modern” to “Postmodern” Psychology: Is There a Way Past? by Barbara Hanfstingl,Timo Gnambs,Peter Adriaan Edelsbrunner,Jana Uher,Ulrich Dettweiler Pdf

Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107021570

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Representation in Western Music by Joshua S. Walden Pdf

This volume assembles leading scholars to provide a comprehensive study of representation in music from the nineteenth century to today.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691219370

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Defining Russia Musically by Richard Taruskin Pdf

The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Defining Russia Musically represents one of his landmark achievements: here Taruskin uses music, together with history and politics, to illustrate the many ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed, both from within Russia and from the Western perspective. He contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's "national character" can best be understood. Russian art music, like Russia itself, Taruskin writes, has "always [been] tinged or tainted . . . with an air of alterity—sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without." The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period. Taruskin begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "East" during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "Wests," Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness. The final section focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European, and each placed in perspective within a revealing hermeneutic scheme. In the culminating chapters—Chaikovsky and the Human, Scriabin and the Superhuman, Stravinsky and the Subhuman, and Shostakovich and the Inhuman—Taruskin offers especially thought-provoking insights, for example, on Chaikovsky's status as the "last great eighteenth-century composer" and on Stravinsky's espousal of formalism as a reactionary, literally counterrevolutionary move.

Author : Nikolaus Bacht
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754655210

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Music, Theatre and Politics in Germany by Nikolaus Bacht Pdf

Music, theatre and politics have maintained a long-standing relationship that continues to be strong. The contributions in this volume bridge the conventional chronological division between 'late Romantic' and 'modern' music to thematize a wide array of i

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315531274

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György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque by Peter Edwards Pdf

György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an ‘anti-anti-opera’, the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to discussion of this work, György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new perspectives on the opera’s musico-dramatic identity in the context of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states and its engagement with the grotesque. This is ably supported by musical analysis and extensive study of Ligeti’s sketch materials held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Edwards’s analyses culminate in a new approach to examining the opera’s rich multiplicities, the composition of the musical material and the nature of Ligeti’s relationship with the musical past. This is a key reference work in the fields of musical modernism and postmodernism, opera studies and the music of Ligeti.

Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521825091

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Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music by David Metzer Pdf

Examines the way the use of quotation in music both creates and transforms cultural associations.

Author : Martin Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136754326

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The Cultural Study of Music by Martin Clayton Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.