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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 .
Pages in category "Postmodern music" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
New sincerity (closely related to and sometimes described as synonymous with post-postmodernism) is a trend in music, aesthetics, literary fiction, film criticism, poetry, literary criticism and philosophy that generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism.
In music, neoconservative postmodernism is "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'", [1] which values "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures" like "latter-day modernists". [2] Neoconservative modernism...critically engages modernism, but rejects it out of hand.
These characteristics are normally lacking in postmodernism or are treated as objects of irony. Postmodernism arose after World War II as a reaction to the perceived failings of modernism, whose radical artistic projects had come to be associated with totalitarianism [ 4 ] or had been assimilated into mainstream culture.
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Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought. Routledge. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1. Lanza, Andrea (2008). "An Outline of Italian Instrumental Music in the 20th Century". Sonus. A Journal of Investigations into Global Musical Possibilities. 29/1: 1–21. Leydi, Robert (1990). "Efisio Melis". Le tradizioni popolari: Canti e musiche popolari in Italia (in Italian ...
Sir Paul McCartney treated his fans to an early Christmas present!. On Saturday, Dec. 14, the music icon, 82, surprised attendees of his concert in Manchester, England, with a rare live ...