Most guides and companions to postmodern culture have little or nothing to say about music, citing musicology's disciplinary autonomy and conservativism as the explanation for its resistance to cultural theory. This issue seeks to set the record straight, by demonstrating how theories of postmodernism as 'incredulity toward grand narrative' speak to musical history and aesthetics; illustrating how music has figured centrally in poststructuralist theory and can itself open up fresh perspectives for reassessing that theory; and proposing new ways of understanding the technological, economic and cultural conditions of contemporary music-making.
- ISBN10 1905007949
- ISBN13 9781905007943
- Publish Date 8 April 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 July 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Lawrence and Wishart Ltd
- Imprint Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English