Postmodern Music- Research based task:

Generic Analysis:

Generic Analysis: by Hannah Duncan on Scribd

Kramer (2002-16/17)

According to Kramer (Kramer 2002, 16–17), postmodern music:

1. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension
2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic
3. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present
4. challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles
5. shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity
6. questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values
7. avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold)
8. considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts
9. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures
10. considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music
11. embraces contradictions
12. distrusts binary oppositions
13. includes fragmentations and discontinuities
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
15. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities
16. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.

Death of Uncool Shuffle Mix:

1. Maneater- Nelly Furtado- Dance Pop.

2. Feel Good Inc.- Gorillaz- Alternative Rock.

3. Omigod You Guys- Legally Blonde: The Musical- Musical.

4. 505- Arctic Monkeys- Indie Rock.

5. Black Water Lilies- Aurora- Indie Pop/Electropop.

6. When Did Your Heart Go Missing?- Rooney- Power Pop.

7. Under Your Spell- Desire- Italo Disco.

8. Ghosts- Laura Marling- Folk Rock.

9. Kings Of The New Road- The Courteeners- Indie Rock.

10. Stop Crying Your Heart Out- Oasis- Rock.

11. It Gets Cold- Eliza and the Bear- Indie Pop.

12. Fluorescent Adolescent- Arctic Monkeys- Indie Rock.

13. Cocoon- Milky Chance- Alternative Rock.

14. Fever To The Form- Nick Mulvey- Folk.

15. Alexander Hamilton- Hamilton: The Musical- Musical.

16. One Dance- Drake- R&B/Hip Hop.

17. Kathleen- Catfish and the Bottlemen- Indie Rock.

18. Shot Reverse Shot- Jack Johnson- Surf Rock.

19. With You- Ghost: The Musical- Musical.

20. Ghost- Katy Perry- Pop. 

Frederic Jameson Criticism Of Postmodernism:

Frederic Jameson sees postmodernism as pointless and trapped in circular references.

Jameson reckons it is nothing more than a series of self referential 'jokes' which have no deeper meaning or purpose. (Ironically Postmodernists don't disagree but use his criticism as their purpose).

For Jameson, literary and cultural output is more purposeful than this and he, therefore, remains a modernist in a world increasingly dominated by postmodern culture.

Jameson also sees reason for the present generations to express themselves through postmodernity as they are the product of such a heavily globalised, multinational dominated economy, which carries the multinational media industry as one of its main branches. The omnipresence of media output helps explain postmodernists’ merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole "there no longer does seem to be any organic relationship between the American history we learn from schoolbooks and the lived experience of the current, multinational, high-rise, stagflated city of the newspapers and of our own everyday life” (p.22 Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991.)

Postmodernism theories and texts from raybloggs

Who Sampled?

Ni**as In Paris by Jay-Z & Kanye West has 4 samples within the song. These are:

1: Baptizing Scene (1959) - Reverend W.A. Donaldson & Congregation.




2: Victory- Puff Daddy ft. Notorious B.I.G & Busta Rhymes.



3: Lady Humps- Blades of Glory (Dialogue)



4: Dirty South Bangaz- Big Fish Audio (Hook & Riff)
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Ni**as In Paris by Jay-Z & Kanye West has been sampled in 32 songs. Some of these are: 

1: All Day- Kanye West ft. Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney. 



2: Lose It- French Montana ft. Rick Ross & Lil Wayne.



3: NigHtmare on Figg St. - ScHoolboy Q.



4: Let Me Go In Paris- Marsha Ambrosius.