Postmodern aspects of musical examples

Dan Black's symphonies is a prime example of bricolage in music, a big part of postmodern media. Dan Black bases his song entirley on other peices of music e.g. a movie theme from the 1980's is the main melody of the song. This shows 3 of the qualities of post modern music: modification - a song has been pulled apart for the individual part to be used in this remaix style record by Dan Black, which ttakes away the seemingly untouchable quality of the songs we listen to in everyday life e.g. on the radio and shows that it can be recycled. This breaks the typical aspects of popular music, which is a very postmodern thing to do. authenticity displaced - relating back to the previous point, the untouchable, other wordly and indescribable quality which naturally forms around normal music.