Checking the Post: Music, Postmodernism and Cultural Theory

This is the first authorised translation of Lyotard's essay 'Musique et postmodernité', which appeared in the Canadian electronic journal Surfaces, VI, 203 (1996): 4-16. Permission for this translation was kindly granted by Lyotard's literary executrix, Mme Dolorès Lyotard. The translation is published in New Formations, no. 66 (Spring 2009), pp. 37-43

2018

The theses cover contemporary musical art as a holistic civilizational system of postmodern and reveals the basic signs of its becoming – synthesis and synergy.

2024

Western postmodernism is a cultural trend of thought that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Its influence involves many fields, such as art, literature, philosophyand aesthetics, which indicates that a major change has taken place in the whole Western society, and also has a profound impact on contemporary culture and art. By analyzing the far-reaching influence of postmodernism on music and philosophy, this paper provided development strategies and suggestions for music and philosophy under the background of postmodernism. This paper studied the positive and negative effects of postmodernism on philosophy and music from two aspects: music and philosophy. The positive influence of postmodernism on philosophy and music is manifested in advocating equality, harmony between man and nature, innovation and critical spirit. Of course, the postmodernism trend of thought also has some negative effects, which should be viewed dialectically on its impact on music and philosophy. On the premise of encouraging innovation, respecting freedom and difference, self-confidence value should be established, so as to promote the further development of philosophy and music. Postmodernism is a cultural form in the later period of capitalism. In the field of music, it is necessary to not only adhere to the rebellion and openness brought by postmodernism, but also attach importance to the artistic value of music works to prevent the production and proliferation of vulgar music works. The influence of postmodernism on music and philosophy, studied in this paper, has important practical significance.

Routledge Companion to Postmodernism, 3rd edn, 2011

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

2024

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Musicae Scientiae, 2007

Published in Modernist Cultures (May 2013)

Musico-literary questions have long informed modernist studies. 1 Issues of form have been at the heart of such scholarship, which continues to explore intermedial connections between music and literature by examining, in David Michael Hertz's words, 'the ubiquitous dialectic between form and content, structure and meaning.' 2 However, the cultural-historical 'turn' in modernist studies means that investigations of the problem of 'musicalised' literature, for instance, or of literary representations of musical themes and figures, now tend to be inflected by carefully historicised and theoretically informed accounts of modernism's musico-literary implications. Thus, recent work on musico-literary modernism represents an important development of mid-twentieth-century reassessments (undertaken by such philosophers as Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch) of music's place in modernity. Hence Ronald Schleifer's recourse to philosophical aesthetics in his recent book Modernism and Popular Music (2011), and his claim that studying modernism from a musico-literary viewpoint requires attention to the material and socio-cultural determinants of twentieth-century subjectivity as well as 'the continuities and discontinuities' by which modernity itself is underpinned. 3 This special issue of Modernist Cultures addresses all of these areas of debate by collecting essays which address the formal, contextual, and philosophical implications of musico-literary modernism. In doing so they expand our sense of modernism's intermedial complexity (and disputed constitution) in work by a diverse range of figures, from Modernist Cultures 8.1 (2013): 1-8

2020

The book contains a detailed introductory study by the editors and 15 chapters by distinguished scholars from 13 countries (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia). This edition presents a pioneering endeavour in global scholarly frames.The main idea was to gain a nuanced scholarly insight that could encourage wider comparative musical studies on different variants of more or less similar phenomena in postsocialist countries. At the same time, diversity, as an important feature of thе volume, testifies to the very wide scope of the term “postsocialism” in music, and leads to a further critical examination of its explanatory value. A variety of local contexts goes together with a very wide range of scholarly approaches. Giving voice to native scholars has allowed to obtain “insights from within”. Thus, the publication testifies to an investment in the decolonialisation of power dictated by...