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Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening by Jonathan D. Kramer; Robert Carl (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Jonathan D. Kramer; Robert Carl (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Pubishing Inc. Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501306044

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Music