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 Gorecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Bjork and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films asThe Bridges of Madison County, Batman, Bullworth,andHe Got Game;and comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music. Also includesnine musical examples.

Judy Lochead is Associate Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she teaches history and theory courses relevant to music of the 20th and 21st centuries Joseph Auner is Associate Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and general editor for Routledge's Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture series. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals