Combined as a single volume for the first time, these essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, cover a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film scores and popular music. Topics include the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music G<recki, Rochberg, Zorn and Bolcom as well as Bj/rk and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films as The Bridges of Madison County , Batman and He Got Game ; comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music.