Patrick Wolf and Postmodernism

[emmavictoria]

er, for my A2 Media Studies exam, the topic is postmodernism. My teacher has asked for people's favourite tv shows, muscians, films, etc which happen to be postmodern to help develop a case study. I was thinking Patrick Wolf could be defined as postmodern through the pastiche of the different genres within his music. I'm not completely sure if he is or not though. I generally find postmodernism slightly confusing anyway

Does anyone have a take on this?

[mynameisHughGrant]

You could definitely have an angle on this. Patrick Wolf's been known to cite chet baker and atari teenage riot as influences. I think the way anyone artistic works is now post-modern in the respect that a piece is a summary of experience. However, you may find it a little difficult to talk at length about post-modernism in relation to patrick wolf, as tv, films and novels are much more rich in knowing winks to themselves than music can be

[naaaat]

You could have something on his use of 'musique concrete' (I think there should be an accent on the e?), ie. using recorded everyday sounds from his tape archives in his music; I think there are quite a lot of post-modern composers (can't remember any examples unfortunately!) that use that sort of stuff in their work?

I have NO idea if that's any help but I hope it at least makes sense

[wakefromthysleep]

Patrick has often been described as avant-gardist(->innovation) but postmodernism is a mixture of old ideas. Problem? No, I think he has both.

Naaaat your idea with the musique concrète makes sense. I read this is one of the characteristics for post-modern music next to breaking traditions(I think Patrick does), discontinuity, irony, eclecticism and segmantation (after Jonathan Kramer there are 16 characteristics).

[emmavictoria]

Thanks guys for your input

[Radio_Dance]

What is defined as Postmodernist confuses me too.