New Formations
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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.