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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.
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 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.
Like a critique: A postmodern essay on Madonna's postmodern video like a prayer: 1991 Stephen E. Young: Popular Music and Society: 59–68 ISSN 0300-7766 OCLC 4804765831 Vol. 15 issue 1 A study on video of "Like a Prayer". [16] Madonna: 1991/92 Jane Miller: Ploughshares: 221–230 ISSN 0048-4474 OCLC 5542946647 Vol. 17 issue 4 Literary studies ...
Pages in category "Music education journals" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.