Music in the Information Age 1975-1979

Theme

The Information Age

1975-1979

Janeth RestrepoPostmodernismIn the Early 20th Century architects began to creating more functionally oriented buildings, composer created different methods of creating new music, and other intellectuals protested against of older ways of doings things.It can be define as an academic reaction or movement to the modernism in the humanities.

MusicPhilip Glass Born in 1937 in Baltimore. He is known for Einstein on the Beach, (1976) Played the violin, flute, loved Style Indian music, famous for his operas, Jazz an rock and roll.

3Einstein on the Beach

Electronic MusicIt was another important massive effect .Karlheinz Stockhausens: Percussion, concreteSounds, street noises, or birds calls.Aleatory (controlled chance serial composition).

6DanceLucinda Child (the postmodern choreographer). the first choreographed dance was in 1979 with music by Phillip Glass.

Lucinda Child Dance Video

Architecture Piazza dItalia, New Orleans, 1975-1979

Courtyard of the Louvre Museum in ParisIt is a Postmodernism Achievement. It has been a piece of history which has a didactic role to the public through lectures audiovisual and interactive productions.The Peis pyramid has become a type of space station for the arts.

Bens House Designer History at Franklin Court, Philadelphia.

FilmsSteven Spielberg created the horror film called Jaw. June 20, 1975

October 25, 1978

Double Self Portrait, Richard Estes.New Realism, (Neorealism Hyperrealism, and Photorealism)Telephone Booths

Picture for WOMEN (1979). Georges Pompidou.Museum NATIONAL DART Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris.

Jeff Wall.

SummaryTo Conclude, Music, dance, Architecture. Film, technology and communication are inclined by postmodernism developments and concepts.The world has been changing in the 20th century and it continues varying everyday, It makes our lifes full of innovations and possibly we find advantages or disadvantages it depends on a lot of factors and circumstances.

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Lewis, Michael J. Early Modernism. American Art and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. 191-253. Print.

Poli, Francesco. Elastico ,Milan ed. New York: Collins Design, 2008Print.

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