Neoconservative postmodernism

In music, neoconservative postmodernism is "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'", which values "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures" like "latter-day modernists". Neoconservative modernism...critically engages modernism, but rejects it out of hand. Neoconservative composers employ premodern styles in an attempt to bring a new type of coherence to the 'heterogeneous present' and re-establish the dominance of Western musical practice. Jann Pasler notes the musical characteristics that are indicative of a neoconservative postmodernism: "In music, we all know about the nostalgia that has gripped composers in recent years, resulting in neo-romantic works ...