Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 Hardcover - 2017

From the rear cover

"Tim Rutherford-Johnson is probably the most authoritative international chronicler of the composed music of our time, and in this book he manages the near-impossible feat of mapping a field that is changing by the day. He is a rigorous thinker, yet he avoids dogma and shows unexpected sympathies. What results is an indispensable work of intellectual passion."--Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise and Listen to This

"Studded as it is with just insights, Rutherford-Johnson's book is even more remarkable--and valuable--for the perspectives it offers on the period since the climacteric of 1989. Here are some new tools for thinking, rethinking, and thinking on."--Paul Griffiths, author of Modern Music and After

"It's a sign that a book is a conversation changer when that book creates a need for its own existence. Music after the Fall is just such a radical rewriting of what we might require from a historical analysis of new music, taking an ecological approach that accounts for race, gender, technologies, and institutional and socioeconomic forces. A compelling and exhilarating read."--Liza Lim, Professor of Composition, University of Huddersfield