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Postmodern music is music in the art music tradition produced in the postmodern era. It also describes any music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism . As an aesthetic movement it was formed partly in reaction to modernism but is not primarily defined as oppositional to modernist music .
Postmodernism has received significant criticism for its lack of stable definition and meaning. The term marks a departure from modernism, and may refer to an epoch of human history (see Postmodernity), a set of movements, styles, and methods in art and architecture, or a broad range of scholarship, drawing influence from scholarly fields such as critical theory, post-structuralist philosophy ...
Postmodern influence extends across all areas of music; its accessibility to a general audience requires an understanding of references, irony, and pastiche that varies widely between artists and their works. [113] In popular music, Madonna, David Bowie, and Talking Heads have been singled out by critics and scholars as postmodern icons.
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.
An accompanying book, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990, was edited by the exhibition curators, Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt. [7] A wide range of postmodern topics are addressed in 42 essays, written by Denise Scott Brown, Charles Jencks, Rick Poynor, David Byrne, and others. The depth of discussion distinguishes the book from ...
For Dempsey, what all forms of metamodernism have in common is the attempt to move beyond postmodernism by means of postmodernism—a move which requires progressively "decentering" from the postmodern vantage in order to reflect on it as an object of analysis (i.e., "going meta" on postmodernism). This reflective move creates a new orientation ...
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [1]
Jencks in the book explains on why he is using the term Post-Modernism and not postmodernism as this: [5] As an unfinished movement of five decades, Post-Modernism is still contentious, and critics disagree over its meaning. The different spellings reflect this, including the streamlined version of a single word, Postmodernism.