Perspectives of New Music, June 22nd, 1999
ONE OF THE THINGS postmodernism has taught us (when viewed as a transformation of modernism rather than its antithesis) is that modernism is a multifaceted phenomenon. [1] Thus postmodernism is as much a rereading of modernism as its replacement. From this position, the perceived opposition between abstract modernist procedures and inclusive, referential postmodernist practices is rendered less stark. For, when one understands that all artifacts signify, modernism is immediately placed in a wider semantic field than one obsessed with pure technical innovation and structural relationships. As...
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