Word: avant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SICKNESS OF SOCIETY can be measured by the corruption of its words. If what is written is commercially compromised, pedestrian, pretentiously avant-garde, sensational, falsely "objective," full of prurient excitements, or given to half-truths in its ambitious and professional urge to suit popular taste, then the vigor and sanity of a people's intellectual life is indicted. No man or woman, still less a nation of millions, can escape the revealing honesty of personal utterance. So America, a land more than any other of printed words and raised voices, speaks a persistent, accusing dialogue with itself at every newsstand...
...author who pioneered this transformation is John Brunner, who was Boskone's chief speaker. Brunner, in his books "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up," adapted avant-garde literary techniques to speculate on overpopulation and pollution. Brunner seemed to echo the feelings of many people at the convention when he told them, in a clipped British accent, "In my childhood I had the feeling that I was outside the existence of normal people. At a convention like this, I feel that all these strangers are on my side and I can relax...
...time the movie is over, Dylan has amply demonstrated his contempt for a moviegoing audience. He borrows conceits from Bergman and Bunuel to show off his superficial knowledge of art-house movies. He strives for incoherence in the belief that pointless ambiguity can pass for an avant-garde aesthetic. He tries to arrive at dramatic truth by letting fuzzy conversations drag on interminably...
DeJohnette is also a very avant-garde (to overuse that term) drummer. He is "outside, very outside," according Glen, who live downstairs. What else...
...Bitches' Brew" group that helped to influence the developing jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s. He has also played with Stanley Clarke on Clarke's "School Days," a very funky album in which Cobham enjoys setting forth basic funky rhythms and varying them, complicating them, creating a funk-avant-garde feel. Essentially, that is what Cobham plays; funk-avant-grade, jazz-rock. His album titles speak for themselves: "Funky Thide of Things," "Shabazz," "Spectrum...