Postmodern VS. Popular Music

<Tab/>Popular music has become the dominant music form in the 20th Century. Popular music is rock 'n' roll, pop, dance, classical, and Bach. Its people like Kylie Minogue, Michael Jackson, and Eminem. It's also bands: Eagles, Papa Roach, and Backstreet Boys. It is popular music. Popular music, we will assume is all music. We will be defining popular music as anything that is recorded. Postmodern music takes more investigation to …

…can see or interpret the characteristics of it that are quite obviously postmodern, music is a much harder task. In conclusion I will mention one definition of postmodernism in music, postmodernism in music is where the anxiety of the listener to make sense of the piece is either perpetually frustrated by pure randomness. The intention of such music is to come together as Imaginary and Symbolic: they are a sort of brainwashing into the Real.