Why postmodernism? For modernity will never cease to end. It will be a modern era tomorrow and the day after and the day after and so on and so forth. Why then is anything modern ? For Mozart was modern in his era, Beethoven was also Modern in his era… so was Dufay, Vivaldi… etc…
If we put music aside from Modernism. Tomorrow’s new invention, or even the launch of a new cellphone is modernity – A trend breaker. So why then do we use the word modern as though we are not modern enough so much as to add “Post” in front of “Modern”. If that is the case, in a few years time, scholars will be debating over what Post post modernism is ( which is already happening). Why can’t scholars find another name to describe today’s music and perhaps because of the wide array of genres we can find, maybe sought it out in different sub genres. Why not leaving it as the music of the 21st Century and in it we could find all its subs.
Why can’t we do away with the entire post modernism idea ?
