Synopsis "Postmodernity's Musical Pasts (in English)"
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts considers music after 1945 as a representation of concepts such as "historicity" and "temporality". The volume understands postmodernity as a period in which both modernism and postmodernism co-exist. It is attracted to a wider interpretation of "historicity" that focuses on the complex nexus of past-present-future. "Historicity" is understood as leaning closely on "temporality", generally thought of as the linear progression of past, present and future. The volume broadens the absolutist understanding of temporality to include processes which can occur in circular, spiral, transcending and other formations.The book covers an extensive spectrum of topics from classical to popular and neo-traditional musics to concerns of the disciplines of musicology. Such a wide range of topics from both the centre and the periphery of the musicological canon mirrors the eclectic and diverse nature of the postwar era itself. The first section investigates how to understand manifestations of the past in musical composition with regard to time, on the one hand, and with regard to genre, style and idiom, on the other. A second section shows how time and history manifest themselves in art music. A third section takes the contrasts and transitional moments of post-1945 practices further by looking at the temporality of reception from different angles. A final part investigates questions of nostalgia and temporalities of belonging.TINA FRÜHAUF is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York and serves on the faculty of The Graduate Center, CUNY.CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Arnold, Susana Asensio Llamas, Georg Burgstaller, Caitlin Carlos, Daniela Fugellie, Tina Frühauf , John Koslovsky, Lawrence Kramer, Beate Kutschke, Laurenz Lütteken, Max Noubel, Joshua S. WaldenTable of ContentsIntroduction - Tina FruehaufMusic and Postmodern Time - Lawrence Kramer'Aesthetic Indigestion': Alfred Schnittke, Anachronism, and the Contemporary Cadenza's Musical Pasts - Joshua S. WaldenJohn Adams's Post-stylistic Approach to the Past: A Response to the Uncertain Future of a Globalized World? - Max NoubelGermany Post Modernism and the Sphericity of Time - Laurenz LüttekenVisions of the 'End of History', 1968, and the Emergence of 'Postmoderne Musik' in West Germany - Beate Kutschke(Neo-)Schenkerism and the Past: Recovering a Plurality of Critical Contexts - John KoslovskyFrom Bach to Neruda: Historicity and Heterogenous Temporality in the Chilean Cantata (1941-69) - Daniella FugellieTime Re-Covered: Double Temporality in Olga Neuwirth's Hommage Klause Nomi - Georg BurgstallerThe Past is Home: Eduardo Martnez Torner in Postwar London -- An Exile's Nostalgia for Spanish Musicology - Susana Asensio LlamasHistorical Nostalgia, Nature, and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who's Next, and Led Zeppelin IV - Caitlin CarlosIndie Neofado's Temporality: A Tale of Two Nostalgia's - Michael Arnold
