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...people have been willing to understand his music, Taj started to perform the country blues (after receiving a degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Massachusetts) and later Chicago-style blues at a time when most young black musicians were involved with either rhythm and blues of the avant-garde jazz movement that was then flourishing. His early explorations into the Blues were also ensnared by the commercially oriented black blues revival of the late sixties. As long as he was classified as a blues singer." It was clear that few black people would ever rush to hear what...
...Columbia Unversity sociologist said yesterday "the avant-garde of sexual liberation" is discovering that sexual variety without affection leads to frustration, tension and jealousy...
...does not seem quite as important as it once did. The reason lies partly in the same craving for nostalgia that in the pop world has brought back Scott Joplin and 1950s' rock 'n' roll. Mostly it seems to stem from a foundering of the musical avant-garde and a desire on the part of performers and audiences alike to reassess what was going on while the twelve-tone and electronic boys were holding sway in the academies...
What is the latest word from the sexual frontier? It may be "retreat." Though there is little likelihood that things will ever go back to where they were 30 years ago, the signs are that the sexual avant-garde-those who practice "swinging," group sex, open marriage, bisexuality and the odder forms of experiment-is in decline...
...design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems to have been a heroic illusion, an ignis fatuus of avant-garde thought: no one really becomes less wicked or more rational by living in an International Style building...