Musik-Diskurse nach 1970

What developments characterised music discourses after the emergence around 1970? Case studies are examined from different national perspectives as well as from a practical, institutional and theoretical point of view. Common narratives and ideological labelling are questioned, from the dualism between tradition and avant-garde to only progress-oriented musical thinking. The discrepancy between artistic niche and mass medium in new music on television is discussed in a new way, as well as composition and improvisation as supposed opposing poles, which were in fact mutually stimulating and produced fluid transitions. The panorama is concluded with a discussion of a new historiography of music that is appropriate to the different phenomena.

With contributions by
Michael Baumgartner | Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen | Jessie Cox | Anna Dalos | Pascal Decroupet | Leo Dick | Doris Lanz | Tatiana Eichenberger | Gabrielle Weber | Roddy Hawkins | Jörn-Peter Hiekel | Jelena Janković-Beguš | Mathias Knauer | Peter Kraut | Michael Kunkel | Joachim Lucchesi | Ivana Medic | Thomas Meyer | Nina Polaschegg | Raphaël Sudan | Stefan Sandmeier | Maria Sappho | Philip Sarasin | Alain Savouret | Rūta Stanevičiūtė | Roman Stolyar | Thomas Gartmann