We are all hearing a great deal about David Bowie’s ‘experimental, avant-garde
style’, etc.
It is telling that much less media attention has been paid to the recent death
of the French composer, conductor, writer and pianist Pierre Boulez — "one of
the philosophical leaders of the post-war movement in the arts towards greater
abstraction and experimentation.” [Wikipedia]
I recently alluded to T.W. Adorno’s critique of the entertainment industry,
which is amply illustrated by juxtaposition of the works of the above-mentioned
‘experimental’ artists.
As a ‘child of the 60’s I was, like many of my generation, taken (in) by what
was offered to me by said entertainment industry as revolutionary, or, in the
language of the times, ‘far-out’ …
Then I heard the report of the death of Igor Stravinsky (April 6, 1971), and
took a bus downtown to a record store to find out what all the fuss was about
...
Chris Bruce,
still disgruntled by the discovery that his mid-20th-century progressive hipness
was little more than a commercialized rehash of late 19th-century ideas, in
Kiel, Germany
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