Totalism
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For the political system, see Totalitarianism. For the psychological concept, see Robert Jay Lifton § Totalism. For an ethical theory, see Total utilitarianism.
Totalism is a style of art music that arose in the 1980s and 1990s as a response to minimalism. It paralleled postminimalism but involved a younger generation of creators, born in the 1950s.[1] This term, invented by writer and composer Kyle Gann, has not been adopted by contemporary musicology and generally still refers only to Gann's use of it in his writings.