Множествена естетика в музиката на постмодерността. Минимализъм и процесна музика
Multiple Aesthetics in the Music of Postmodernity. Minimalism Music and Processes

Summary/Abstract: The text examines the ways of development of the contemporary music in the postmodern era and its expression; introduces the comprehension of the concept of postmodernism as a temporal and cultural/historical, stylistic marker, adequate to the specific, local development for the different arts, and its concept of modernism. The article exposes the thesis for the examination of the conceptual relationships between different practices and procedures in the postmodern music as well as the multiple aesthetics in the music of the post-modernity. The article presents leading concepts and contradictions in terms concerning the minimalistic music and the art of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The text introduces the Michael Nyman’s ideas of process music defined in his book “Experimental music. Cage and beyond” and its different types – chance determination processes, people processes, contextual processes, repetition processes and electronic processes.

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