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cold war era music
concert hall
crossover work
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evolution of music
excess
experimental music
fluidity
music composition
music criticism
music theory
musical anthropology
musical theorists
musician
musicians
permission
political and cultural influence
remix culture
sampling music
sound art
string quartets
western art
Product details
- ISBN 9780520283145
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2017
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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.
Tim Rutherford-Johnson is a London-based music journalist and critic. He was the contemporary music editor at Grove Music Online and edited the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music. He has taught at Goldsmiths College and Brunel University, and since 2003 he has written about new music for his blog, The Rambler.
