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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 .
In popular music, Madonna, David Bowie and Talking Heads have been singled out by critics and scholars as postmodern icons. The belief that art music – serious, classical music – holds higher cultural and technical value than folk and popular traditions, lost influence under postmodern analysis, as musical hybrids and crossovers attracted ...
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Art pop draws on postmodernism's breakdown of the high/low cultural boundary and explores concepts of artifice and commerce. [12] [nb 1] The style emphasizes the manipulation of signs over personal expression, drawing on an aesthetic of the everyday and the disposable, in distinction to the Romantic and autonomous tradition embodied by art rock or progressive rock.
Important cultural trends often informed music of this period, romantic, modernist, neoclassical, postmodernist or otherwise. Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev were particularly drawn to primitivism in their early careers, as explored in works such as The Rite of Spring and Chout .
According to A History of Western Music, "it calls into question ideas of authorship and originality, making it a thoroughly postmodern work". [20] The music of Osvaldo Golijov often combines the classical, modern, and popular traditions within a single work juxtaposing contrasting styles—an important trend in the music of the 1960s onward. [20]
MTV’s Video Music Awards introduced a song of summer category in 2013, with One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” nabbing the inaugural award. Media publications published annual round-ups ...
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.