Research Catalog

Title

Music after the fall : modern composition and culture since 1989 / Tim Rutherford-Johnson.

Author

Rutherford-Johnson, Tim

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xii, 348 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This 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 and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss.

Series Statement

Simpson imprint in humanities

Uniform Title

Simpson, imprint in humanities

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism
• Music > 21st century > History and criticism
• Music > Social aspects > History > 20th century
• Music > Social aspects > History > 21st century
• Musique > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Musique > Aspect social > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Musique > Aspect social > Histoire > 21e siècle
• Music
• Music
• Music > Social aspects
• Neue Musik
• Politischer Wandel
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism
• Music > 21st century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1989 and after -- Mediation and the marketplace -- Permission: freedom, choice, and the body -- Fluidity: digital translations, displacements, and journeys -- Mobility: worldwide flows, networks, and archipelagos -- Superabundance: spectacle, scale, and excess -- Loss: ruins, memorials, and documents -- Recovery: gaps between past and present.

ISBN

• 9780520283145
• 0520283147
• 9780520283152
• 0520283155
• 9780520959040 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016040711

OCLC

• 958262850
• SCSB-10268289

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library