Minimalism in Music Production Research Papers (original) (raw)
[informal] A historical discussion of post-minimalism in music, with particular attention to historiographic issues. Discusses radical vs reactionary postminimalism, minimalism and music theater, the influence of popular music.
The paper propos a focus upon two tendencies of contemporary music; the first is Minimalism, movement represented by musicians like La Monte Young, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the second one is the rave music (like techno), feature of... more
The paper propos a focus upon two tendencies of contemporary music; the first is Minimalism, movement represented by musicians like La Monte Young, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the second one is the rave music (like techno), feature of popular culture and postmodernist age. Through Adorno's thought, and starting from his dialectical analysis about the dualism Schonberg-Stravinskij, this essay aims a philosophical understanding of concept like “repetition” and “lack of trascendence”; the absence of development in a lot of music production of the last decades, in popular music as much as in classical music, is demonstration of a loss of subject, where the “eternal return” of the rhythmic structure can be understood in terms of “eternal return of the same” and not in terms of “eternal return of possibility”.