Avant-pop (artistic movement)
Avant-pop (or avantpop) is an American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s.[1] The name of the movement has been taken by Larry McCaffery from the homonymous 1986 album by American jazz musician Lester Bowie (Avant Pop - Brass Fantasy), where pop tunes are scored for a brass ensemble.[2]
References
- ↑ Mark Amerika maintains that Avantpop has replaced postmodernism: "Now that Postmodernism is dead and we're in the process of finally burying it, something else is starting to take hold in the cultural imagination and I propose that we call this new phenomenon Avant-Pop"
- ↑ McCaffery said that he "picked up the album and the first song was "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino, and Bowie did a weird twisted version of it. [He] realized that [Bowie] was playing with this popular tune, improvising and opening it up to what was already there but just needed to be let out. [He] thought it was similar to what Kathy Acker was doing by re-writing Great Expectations and stuff."
Bibliography
- McCaffery, Larry, Avant-pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, Fiction Collective Two / FC2, 1994, ISBN 978-0-932511-72-0
- McCaffery, Larry, After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology, Penguin, 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-024085-6
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