There is a new word floating around the downtown music scene: Totalism.

His music is associated with the genres of totalism and post-minimalism.

He saw clearly the dangers which awaited those who lost their free will to totalism."

For a musical style derived from minimalism, see Totalism (music).

Totalism does not leave much to chance or improvisation but retains the immediacy of scoreless performance.

Such are the ironies of Totalism.

"Religious totalism, exemplary dualism and the Waco tragedy."

Perhaps someone should conduct "psychological interviews" to further observe such "ideological totalism" and the "quest for simplicity" among American opinion makers.

The festival represented a particular kind of style that is also appearing in many compositions, a style that has been called totalism.

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.

With Mao Zedong's victory in 1949, China was plunged into revolutionary "totalism."

The downtown styles should probably be described as Polymorphism rather than Totalism, because of their still nascent character and wild eclecticism.

It imposes on all matters a quality of ideological totalism - of insistence on all-or-none judgments and positions.

Mr. Rouse has been at the forefront of a movement called Totalism (as opposed to Minimalism).

One Half of a Manifesto by Jaron Lanier-a critique of "cybernetic totalism"

In his later work, Lifton has focused on defining the type of change to which totalism is opposed, for which he coined the term the protean self.

Ironically, other composers had arrived at a similar technique via other routes, coalescing into a New York style of the 1980s and '90s called Totalism.

The term was popularized by Robert Jay Lifton in his 1956 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.

She references psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton's work Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism as a resource throughout the book.

Mikel Rouse - Musician with Tirez Tirez, composer who developed Totalism (music)

Rebuffing both patriotic "totalism" and parochial "tribalism," Mr. Marty envisions a national "conversation," a diffuse cultural project that cannot be scripted or commanded.

In Totalism there is some attempt to have it all: be minimal in repetitions of small musical units, yet maximal in writing works in which large structures are created and dissonance is celebrated.

This ability puts Mr. Rouse at the forefront of a movement among composers of his generation, especially those in New York, that has in some circles acquired the contentious name Totalism.

Postminimalism and totalism were both bolstered by the emergence, starting in 1987, of the Bang on a Can festival, curated by Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon.

As a critic for The Village Voice (from November 1986 to December 2005) and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.