Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening
Jonathan D. Kramer, "Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening"
English | ISBN: 1501306022 | 2016 | 400 pages | PDF | 32 MB
English | ISBN: 1501306022 | 2016 | 400 pages | PDF | 32 MB
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,
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