Music after the Fall

Modern Composition and Culture since 1989

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ID8086246
AuthorsTim Rutherford-Johnson (corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages348
Publication date2017-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMusic after the fall (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520283145.001.0001
OpenAlexW4256486412
Open LibraryOL27233278M
ISBN9780520283145
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDkO2HDQAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received18

By the start of the 21st century many of the foundations of postwar culture had disappeared: Europe had been rebuilt and, as the EU, had become one of the world’s largest economies; the United States’ claim to global dominance was threatened; and the postwar social democratic consensus was being replaced by market-led neoliberalism. Most importantly of all, the Cold War was over, and the World Wide Web had been born. Music After The Fall considers contemporary musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing on theories from the other arts, in particular art and architecture, it expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter considers a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions are considered critically to build up a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from South American electroacoustic studios to pianos in the Australian outback. A new approach to the study of contemporary music is developed that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique, and more on the comparison of different responses to common themes, among them permission, fluidity, excess, and loss

Amateur · Art · Art history · Composition (language · Context (archaeology · Counterculture · Democracy · Electronic music · Literature · Media studies · Music education · Music industry · Musical · Musical composition · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · 20th century · 21st century · History · History and criticism · Music · Music, history and criticism · Neue Musik · Politischer Wandel · Social aspects · Law

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