David
Bennett (guest editor)
Most guides and companions to postmodern culture have little or nothing
to say about music, citing musicology’s disciplinary autonomy and conservativism
as the explanation for its resistance to cultural theory. This issue seeks
to set the record straight, by demonstrating how theories of postmodernism
as ‘incredulity toward grand narrative’ speak to musical history and aesthetics;
illustrating how music has figured centrally in poststructuralist theory
and can itself open up fresh perspectives for reassessing that theory; and
proposing new ways of understanding the technological, economic and cultural
conditions of contemporary music-making.
Contributors:
David Bennett, Gay Breyley, Jon Cairns, Claire Colebrook, Steven Connor,
Andrew Wright Hurley, Peter Sjølyst-Jackson, Judy Lochhead, Vincent Lloyd,
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), Susan McClary, Nick Prior, John Scannell,
David Toop Cover: Balade dans le piano de Glen Gould – Blues ... and rhythm?
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