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"A conceptual order in which grand, sythesizing schemes of explanation have lost their place and in which the traditional bases of rational understanding -- unity, coherence, generality, totality, structure -- have lost their authority if not their pertinence. Postmodernist strategies of understanding are incorribibly interdisciplinary and irreducibly plural. Like the theories that groung them, they make up not a system but an ethos." (L. Kramer, Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, p. 5)