|Minimalism in Art| |Minimalism in Music| Postmodern music is
both a musical style and a musical condition. As a musical
style, postmodern music contain characteristics of postmodern
art—that is, art after modernism (see Modernism in Music). It
favors eclecticism in form and musical genre, and often combines
characteristics from different genres, or employs jump-cut
sectionalization. It tends to be self-referential and ironic,
and it blurs the boundaries between "high art" and kitsch.
Daniel Albright (2004) summarizes the traits of the postmodern
style as bricolage, polystylism, and randomness. As a musical
condition, postmodern music is simply the state of music in
postmodernity. In this sense, postmodern music does not have any
one particular style or characteristic, and is not necessarily
postmodern in style. However, the music of postmodernity is
thought to differ from that of modernity in that whereas modern
music was valued for its fundamentals and expression, postmodern
music is valued as both a commod