MUSIC AFTER THE FALL

Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and tech nological environment of the postCold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this chan ged backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in p articular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sou...[Read more]