In music, neoconservative postmodernism is a, "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'," which values, "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures," like, "latter-day modernists," and includes composers such as Fred Lerdahl, John Harbison, and Steve Reich. Neoconservative, "postmodernism is understood as a 'return to the verities of tradition (in art, family, religion... )' and where, crucially, modernism 'is reduced to a style...

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  • In music, neoconservative postmodernism is a, "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'," which values, "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures," like, "latter-day modernists," and includes composers such as Fred Lerdahl, John Harbison, and Steve Reich. Neoconservative, "postmodernism is understood as a 'return to the verities of tradition (in art, family, religion... )' and where, crucially, modernism 'is reduced to a style... and condemned or excised entirely as a cultural mistake; pre- and postmodern elements are then elided, and the humanist tradition is preserved. '"
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  • In music, neoconservative postmodernism is a, "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'," which values, "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures," like, "latter-day modernists," and includes composers such as Fred Lerdahl, John Harbison, and Steve Reich. Neoconservative, "postmodernism is understood as a 'return to the verities of tradition (in art, family, religion... )' and where, crucially, modernism 'is reduced to a style...
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  • Neoconservative postmodernism
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