Kramer's Theory

  I don't know if I've understood this correctly.

in my words

1. music includes aspects of both postmodernism and modernism
2. postmodern music can be ironic - Timbaland's song contain monkeys, birds and baby's
3. doesn't always follow the 'rules' of the past and present music
4. Challenge high and lows - high = classical, low = pop (pop, rock, etc in broadest sense) Dan Black and Kanye West challenge high and low's
5.  Structural unity - blurred and uses inspiration from others - meaning that artist's music has lots of intertextual references causing a blurred effect between which is/was the original and the piece which piece has taken inspiration, causes a hyper reality effect.
6. Taking elements from elitists (classical musicians, purist music listeners)/cross over from classical to populist (pop music, r&b, rock etc). This is when an artist takes a song from the elitist/classical genre to the populist (their) genre, an example of this is Beyonce singing Ave Maria (which is a classical song), the artists may do this for (although many others) two reasons; to boost their career or the song to make it more popular. The band or artist will normally keep the lyrics the same or slightly alter them but add a pop backing tune to the song to make it marketable to the mainstream audience instead of it's previous niche market, there are other artists who have done this include; Dan Black's Symphonies
   
7. The artists doesn't want the music to sound the same and repetitive, or use to much of the inspired sound (sections from other artists)
8. Music isn't autonomous e.g independent or has no influences, but it's affected by political, socail and cultural change or movements. Examples of these are Green Day/U2's - The saints are coming, a song about the Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans, USA, 2005, charity sings such as, Live Aid, do they even know it's christmas by band aid (both) or songs from Lady GaGa or Green Day's Holiday which is about Politics in America, another is diamonds form Sierra Leone by Kanye West which is a protest song about Blood Diamonds, from the area.
   
9. takes sections or inspiration from music which exists in different cultures and traditions, for example bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers using/taking inspirational music form the Jazz, Blues genres etc and adding them into their songs which are categorized as Rock.
10. musician/artist doesn't just consider technology as a way of keeping record or their music and to transmit the music to their audience but they recognise that it is important in the production and attributes to their music and it's sound. Examples are DJ Shadow's live DJ/mixing on stage, KT Tunstall recording her music on stage and replaying and rerecording it on stage to produce her music, Imogen Heap, and David Albarn from Blur and Gorillaz created a album on his iPad whilst at the back of a bus during him and the Gorillaz touring America to Promote the Plastic Beach album
11. Music embraces contradictions, e.g. a Japanese band using 77 drummers in a single, they had one bassist or guitarist, but this is an example of contradiction within music as it's a contradiction to the stereotypical band/conventions within  music as you just wouldn't expect more than two or three drummers at maximum in any band.
12. doesn't use/trust binary opposites. postmodern music doesn't have/use any binary opposites as they don't work
13. Includes sampling sections or small pieces of music from others therefore fragmenting pieces of music into their own. discontinuities - not constant through out entire song or the main theme/tune/backing music to song.
14. believes all music is equal and isn't better than any other piece, 
15. Songs have more than one meaning to them, as they have more than one listener/person in the audience.
16. Doesn't always make sense in performances, scores or composers, but has more meaning and structure in listeners. It's how the audience interprets the song, it's meaning and possible moral, the audience may see an entire different meaning to a song than the artists, some audiences may see different meaning to each other, due to different levels of understanding and knowledge.

in kramers words

1. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension
2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic
3. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present
4. challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles
5. shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity
6. questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values
7. avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold)
8. considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts
9. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures
10. considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music
11. embraces contradictions
12. distrusts binary oppositions
13. includes fragmentations and discontinuities
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
15. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities
16. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers