Music after the fall : modern composition and culture since 1989 /
Tim Rutherford-Johnson.
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. 1989 and After; 2. Mediation and the Marketplace; 3. Permission: Freedom, Choice, and the Body; 4. Fluidity: Digital Translations, Displacements, and Journeys; 5. Mobility: Worldwide Flows, Networks, and Archipelagos; 6. Superabundance: Spectacle, Scale, and Excess; 7. Loss: Ruins, Memorials, and Documents; 8. Recovery: Gaps between Past and Present; Appendix 1: Recommended Listening; Appendix 2: Further Reading; Notes; Index.
Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside an.
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