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Postmodern Musicology in Combined Development: a Review of Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner, eds, Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), ISBN 0815338198 (hb), 0815338201 (pb)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

Adam Krims
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In Trotsky’s classic theory of uneven development, ‘combined development’ designates how some regions may graft characteristics of new production relations onto older formations: examples might include the information economies of Guangzhou and Lagos, integrated to early capitalist, or even older, social orders. ‘Combined development’ provides a handy metaphor for Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought, suggesting the grafting of post-Marxist ‘postmodern theory’ onto a musicological field that never substantively encountered Marxism, instead embracing ideologies that had already repudiated it.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 125 - 130
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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