June 24, 2007
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postmodern music, novelty, and meaning
Check out my friend WesJanson's site for an extremely representative example of postmodern music. (Watch the whole video clip.)
Western music progressed from the stately, ordered music of the chants, Baroque, and Classical, through the wild and reactionary Romantic era (as the "Enlightenment" philosophers increasingly rejected God in favor of autonomous humanism), to the even wilder and more reactionary Modern era (as the philosophers began to despair in the dark bleakness of atheism). After the second World War and the Holocaust, as the shaken elite of the musical world began to try to react against Modernism and its sterile atonicity, there was only one direction to move (since without a transcendent foundation no positive statement of any kind could be formulated) -- ridicule of everything that came before.
Hence postmodern music seeks to elicit a response from its audience through novelty alone. Novel sounds, novel instruments, using traditional instruments in novel ways... always trying to do the unexpected. Making fun of everything that has come before. 'Everything is meaningless,' postmodernism claims.
(but that's only the 'under the sun' perspective... willfully unaware of Him...)
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post-modern is when modern became old fashioned... sign of the times my friend.
Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'
Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?
...elect door of the Gods you are, or bleatest inanely 4 eternity in 'his' pasture.
that was brilliant. did the audience get it at first, you think? oh... the music we hear 'nowadays'...
thanks for suggesting it!
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