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Postmodernism in music

This monograph is the first publication to focus exclusively on postmodernism and music. Postmodernism is a term that has been used extensively to describe general trends and specific works in many different cultural contexts, including cinema, architecture and the visual arts, but its relevance for music has not been widely pursued. In this book Gloag provides his own original interpretation of what is understood by postmodernism through an engagement with the works of some of its key thinkers (Eco, Harvey, Hassan, Huyssen, Jameson, Lyotard).

Part of the aspiration of the book is to encourage a music-based readership to enter into different theoretical and contextual discourses while inviting readers from other disciplines and contexts to engage with a wide range of music crossing stylistic and chronological boundaries. The musical relevance of this discourse is explored through discussion of specific musical examples from the 1950s (John Cage) to more recent times (DJ Spooky).