{"product_id":"music-after-the-fall-modern-composition-and-culture-since-1989-9780520283152","title":"Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989","description":"\"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen.\"\u003cb\u003e--Alex Ross, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"...an essential survey of contemporary music.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"...sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises months of fresh discovery, the main text a fresh new way of navigating the world of sound.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Music Book of the Year--Alex Ross, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusic after the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Rutherford-Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is a London-based music journalist and critic. He was the contemporary music editor at \u003ci\u003eGrove Music Online\u003c\/i\u003e and edited the most recent edition of the \u003ci\u003eOxford Dictionary of Music.\u003c\/i\u003e He has taught at Goldsmiths College and Brunel University, and since 2003 he has written about new music for his blog, \u003ci\u003eThe Rambler\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460350578962,"sku":"9780520283152","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b4bbd99-63c3-4bdc-a08c-e76a2164983f.jpg?v=1730038578","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-after-the-fall-modern-composition-and-culture-since-1989-9780520283152","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}