A Sprawling Mess: The Poetics of "Musica Residua"

A Sprawling Mess: The Poetics of "Musica Residua"

This essay explores the poetics of a contemporary music practice that takes postmodernism's articulation of modernity's aesthetic failure as its expressive prerogative. The works that I consider here are written by Canadian and American composers whose conceptual attitude is indebted large...

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Veröffentlicht in:Radical musicology 2009-01, Vol.4
1. Verfasser: Priest, Eldritch
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Aesthetics
Experimental Music
Music Criticism
Postmodernism
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Zusammenfassung:This essay explores the poetics of a contemporary music practice that takes postmodernism's articulation of modernity's aesthetic failure as its expressive prerogative. The works that I consider here are written by Canadian and American composers whose conceptual attitude is indebted largely to the American and British experimental tradition. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1751-7788
1751-7788