Post Modernism is a very hard topic to understand and it confuses many people including me but the typical connotations of it are somewhat basic. There was then and then there is now, There was Romanticism which was basically surrounded by the belief that god did this and god did that, but nowadays we are more aware of the Government input and we are less trusting to things that years ago would pass us by, but just like societies' judgement has changed as has music in some way there is differences in music and not just via genre but in terms of Post Modernism.
Romanticism basically shows the artist through their songs, artists like Adele who sing it from the heart truthfully and in their own way sum up this type of music.
Modernism, artists like Eminem who have created their own format with their irony and experimentation(such as his mocking of other artists) this sums up these type of artists.
Post Modern is probably the easiest to describe, people like Lady Gaga who is their own person, not a copy and have created them self is a credit to themselves as it embraces the culture of society, Artists like Kanye West are also apart of this due to the way they "Big Up" themselves through their own ego and status this is a revolutionary idea that was unheard of .
An example of Post Modern type of music is 30 Seconds to Mars in the music video below:
This music video contains basically a documentary throughout it, this shows the originality of the band even if it wasn't their own idea to create this. 30 Seconds To Mars also uses post modernism key terms in their music video as they acknowledge that the "City of Angels" AKA Los Angeles is a hyper reality meaning it doesn't truly exist in the way that many people believe that it does. Many people are homeless and have lost their dreams there and this music video helps to show this. It kind of exposes the truth of the city rather than it be viewed in its Hyper Reality through rose tinted windows, the music video focusses on the views of many celebrities and also people that we would consider lower classes to get a good comparison from the people who live or are from there
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