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			The Death of Modernism in Contemporary Music
				Introduction
				Autonomy vs. Heteronomy
				Ahistoricity vs. Historicity
				High/Low: Divisionism vs. Synthesis
				Conception vs. Perception
				Conclusion: Postmodernity
				Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

Adorno, Theodor. Quasi una fantasia. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. London-New York: Verso, 1963. pp. 37-53, 249-269.

Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish Character of Music and the Regression of Listening" in Art and Its Significance, 3rd edition. Ed. Stephen David Ross. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. pp. 539-547.

Babbitt, Milton. "The Composer as Specialist". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 278-284.

Bernstein, Leonard. The Unanswered Question--Six Talks at Harvard, Cambridge, MA.-London: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Boulez, Pierre. Orientations. Ed. Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Trans. Martin Cooper. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. pp. 31-99.

Cage, John. John Cage: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.

Danto, Arthur C. Encounters and Reflections--Art in the Historical Present. New York: The Noonday Press, 1991. pp. 272-278, and 297-312

Danto, Arthur C. Beyond the Brillo Box--The Visual Arts In Post-Historical Perspective. New York: Farrar-Straus-Giroux, 1992. pp. 15-31, 115-129, 147-160, and 217-231.

Ferry, Luc. Homo Aestheticus--The Invention of Taste in the Democratic Age. Trans. Robert De Loaiza. Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. pp. 1-7,114-148, and 192-261.

Foreman, Richard. "Glass and Snow". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 305-309.

Glass, Philip. Music by Philip Glass. Ed. Robert T. Jones. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Jencks, Charles. "Postmodern and Late Modern: The Essential Definitions". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 285-289.

Kostelanetz, Richard. "Contemporary American Aesthetics". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 13-31.

Krukowski, Lucian. Art and Concept-A Philosophical Study. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. pp. 3-28, 45-75.

Krukowski, Lucian. Aesthetic Legacies. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992. pp. 1-16, 65-88, 118-224.

Kubler, George. "Style and the Representation of Historical Time". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 125-131.

Lewitt, Sol. "Sentences on Conceptual Art". in Art and Its Significance, 3rd edition. Ed. Stephen David Ross. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. pp. 691-692.

Lyotard, Jean-François. "What Is Postmodernism?". in Art and Its Significance, 3rd edition. Ed. Stephen David Ross. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. pp. 559-564.

Morgan, Robert C. "The Delta of Modernism". in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 182-190.

Novitz, David. The Boundaries of Art. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992. pp. 1-41.

Reich, Steve. "Music as a Gradual Process" in Esthetics Contemporary, revised ed. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989. pp. 302-304.

Rochberg, George. The Aesthetics of Survival. Ed. William Bolcom. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1984. pp. 1-24, 155-163, 204-242.

Zappa, Frank and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press, 1989.

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