MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: African-American Music, Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians, Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Lecture 14 – Postmodernism and Beyond
❖ Modernism and Postmodernism:
• In Western culture, names for distinct eras of social life dominated by particular
ideas and trends of thought.
❖ Social Life (factors below are intertwined in complex ways)
• Economic structures and the labor market
• Flows of Power, structures of control
• Arts ad Media (art, music, theatre, dance, literature, television, film,
architecture, etc.)
• Philosophy, popular opinion, beliefs
• Lifestyles, aspirations, etc.
• Not driven by a top down authority but bottom up through complicated
interactions of these factors
❖ Some Possible Values and Trends in Art
• Modernism
o “ietifi progress “tokhause
o Ability to quantify and measure
o Pursuit of Universal Truths
o Art can be taken as itself, separated from context and politics
o Abstraction
o In Music, atonality and serialism (Schoenberg)
o Architecture
▪ Focused on symmetry and perfect ratios
• Postmodernism
o Deconstruction
o Criticism as a primary mode of discourse
o Breakdo of high art / lo art dihotoy
o Appropriation
o Commercialism
▪ Idea that everything is infused with the economic environment
o Political and social awareness
o Self-awareness
▪ Breaking the fourth wall
o Reference to the process of creation
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