Word: avante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel like people at Yale were pushing you to do more avant-garde, more experimental work than you were interested...
What passes for avant-garde style today is mostly recycled and tired, a thrice-dipped tea bag. There is not only a place but a burning need for art whose images are worldly, skilled, robustly embodied and keenly felt. This is what Freud, by taking nothing for granted and looking over the very brink of his perceptions, supplies...
...because I couldn't get anybody to play the classical music that I wrote." During a career that spanned three decades, Zappa never pretended or wanted to be anything else. On the first Mothers' album, 1966's Freak Out!, he quoted the maxim of his hero, the '20s avant-gardist Edgard Varese: "The present-day composer refuses to die." They were words he lived...
...yeah. I do see myself as an American author, but I think that we often have a very narrow notion of what American writing is. I think that what's happening right now in American literature is a kind of avant-gardism of content...People are less interested in experimenting with form and are more interested in dragging into the novel all kinds of new content, including talking about ethnic groups that have never been represented before. And to the degree that everyone seems to have decided that homosexuals will be treated as though they were an ethnic group...
...outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion seamlesslyintegrates the soaring melodies of Klezmer withthe tasty fury of hard-core...