Music, Tendencies, and Inhibitions : Reflections on a Theory of Leonard Meyer

The book will focus on Meyer's aesthetic rather than his music-theoretical proclivities, and is intended for academics and students in various fields as well as educated non-academics.

The music scene is fluctuating, Meyer suggests, in that new and original styles or techniques are continuously emerging or developing on a small scale; it is static in that many of these developments seem unrelated, and are not likely to be grasped or progress as a whole.

It will be posited that this theory foreshadowed and reflects important ideologies of contemporary culture, including postmodernism.