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...garde art and rock and roll strove towards the common goal of social and political upheaval. Even prior to the creation of rock and roll, music and revolutionary art have made natural bedfellows. Five years before Marcel Duchamp drew a goatee on the Mona Lisa, Luigi Russolo and Babilla Pratella were accompanying traditional music with an orchestra and Pratella was accompanying traditional music with an orchestra of “Bruiteurs” that interrupted traditional compositions with grunts and hisses. The Bruiteurs shared the revolutionary spirit of the Dadaists, who believed that traditional cultural institutions, symbolic of societies responsible...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Conceptual Art and Rock and Roll | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

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