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{{Short description|Experimental genre of pop music}} |
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{{about-distinguish2|a class of popular music that includes genres not limited to pop music|[[Experimental pop]], [[Art pop]], or [[Progressive pop]]. For other uses, see [[Avant-pop (disambiguation)]]}} |
{{about-distinguish2|a class of popular music that includes genres not limited to pop music|[[Experimental pop]], [[Art pop]], or [[Progressive pop]]. For other uses, see [[Avant-pop (disambiguation)]]}} |
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{{Popular music}} |
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'''Avant-pop''' is [[popular music]] that is [[experimental music|experimental]], new, and distinct from previous styles<ref name=f/> while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.<ref name="br"/> The term implies a combination of [[avant-garde]] sensibilities with existing elements from popular music in the service of novel or idiosyncratic artistic visions.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> |
'''Avant-pop''' is [[popular<!--- Do not change to "pop", per source, "By this I mean a form of popular music that is self-consciously experimental, new, and distinct from existing forms ..." ---> music]] that is [[experimental music|experimental]], new, and distinct from previous styles<ref name=f/> while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.<ref name="br"/> The term implies a combination of [[avant-garde]] sensibilities with existing elements from popular music in the service of novel or idiosyncratic artistic visions.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> |
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==Definition== |
==Definition== |
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"Avant-pop" has been used to label music which balances experimental or [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]] approaches with stylistic elements from popular music, and which probes mainstream conventions of structure or form.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> Writer Tejumola Olaniyan describes "avant-pop music" as transgressing "the boundaries of established styles, the meanings those styles reference, and the [[social norm]]s they support or imply."<ref name=f>{{cite book|last1=Olaniyan|first1=Tejumola|title=Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics|date=2004|publisher=Indiana University Press|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TK8B5wVun9sC&pg=PA7}}</ref> |
"Avant-pop" has been used to label music which balances experimental or [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]] approaches with stylistic elements from popular music, and which probes mainstream conventions of structure or form.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> Writer Tejumola Olaniyan describes "avant-pop music" as transgressing "the boundaries of established styles, the meanings those styles reference, and the [[social norm]]s they support or imply."<ref name=f>{{cite book|last1=Olaniyan|first1=Tejumola|title=Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics|date=2004|publisher=Indiana University Press|page=7|isbn=0253110343|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TK8B5wVun9sC&pg=PA7}}</ref> Music writer Sean Albiez describes "avant-pop" as identifying idiosyncratic artists working in "a liminal space between [[contemporary classical music]] and the many popular music genres that developed in the second half of the twentieth century."<ref name="bloomsbury"/> He noted avant-pop's basis in experimentalism, as well its [[postmodern]] and non-hierarchical incorporation of varied genres such as pop, [[electronica]], [[rock music|rock]], [[classical music|classical]], and [[jazz]].<ref name="bloomsbury"/> |
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Paul Grimstad of ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'' writes that avant-pop is music that "re-sequences" the elements of song structure "so that (a) none of the charm of the tune is lost, but (b) this very accessibility leads one to bump into weirder elements welded into the design."<ref name="br">{{cite web|author=Paul Grimstad|title=What Is Avant-Pop?|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop|website=[[Brooklyn Rail]]|date=September 4, 2007| |
Paul Grimstad of ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'' writes that avant-pop is music that "re-sequences" the elements of song structure "so that (a) none of the charm of the tune is lost, but (b) this very accessibility leads one to bump into weirder elements welded into the design."<ref name="br">{{cite web|author=Paul Grimstad|title=What Is Avant-Pop?|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop|website=[[Brooklyn Rail]]|date=September 4, 2007|access-date=1 October 2016}}</ref> The Tribeca New Music Festival defines "avant-pop" as "music that draws its energy from both popular music and classical forms."<ref name="avanttribeca">{{cite news|last1=Kozinn|first1=Alann|title='Emerging Avant-Pop': From Charles Ives to Frank Zappa|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/arts/music/11mons.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 11, 2006}}</ref> The term has elsewhere been used by literary critic [[Larry McCaffery]] to describe "the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave."<ref name="McCaffery1993">{{cite book|last=McCaffery|first=Larry|author-link=Larry McCaffery|title=Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTdUIy3sc5MC|year=1993|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-932511-72-0|pages=12, back cover}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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In the 1960s, as popular music began to gain cultural importance and question its status as commercial entertainment, musicians began to look to the [[post-war]] avant-garde for inspiration.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> In 1959, music producer [[Joe Meek]] recorded ''[[I Hear a New World]]'' (1960), which ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]''{{'}} Jonathan Patrick calls a "seminal moment in both [[electronic music]] and avant-pop history [...] a collection of dreamy pop vignettes, adorned with dubby echoes and tape-warped sonic tendrils" which would be largely ignored at the time.<ref name="tmtpat2013">{{cite web|last1=Patrick|first1=Jonathan|title=Joe |
In the 1960s, as popular music began to gain cultural importance and question its status as commercial entertainment, musicians began to look to the [[post-war]] avant-garde for inspiration.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> In 1959, music producer [[Joe Meek]] recorded ''[[I Hear a New World]]'' (1960), which ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]''{{'}} Jonathan Patrick calls a "seminal moment in both [[electronic music]] and avant-pop history [...] a collection of dreamy pop vignettes, adorned with dubby echoes and tape-warped sonic tendrils" which would be largely ignored at the time.<ref name="tmtpat2013">{{cite web|last1=Patrick|first1=Jonathan|title=Joe Meek's pop masterpiece I Hear a New World gets the chance to haunt a whole new generation of audiophile geeks|url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/joe-meeks-pop-masterpiece-i-hear-a-new-world-gets-the-chance-to-haunt-a-whole-new-generation-of|website=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]|date=March 8, 2013}}</ref> Other early avant-pop productions included [[the Beatles]]'s 1966 song "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]", which incorporated techniques from [[musique concrète]], avant-garde composition, [[Indian music]], and [[Electroacoustics (acoustical engineering)|electro-acoustic]] sound manipulation into a 3-minute pop format, and [[the Velvet Underground]]'s integration of [[La Monte Young]]'s [[minimalist music|minimalist]] and [[drone music]] ideas, [[beat poetry]], and 1960s pop art.<ref name="bloomsbury">{{cite book |last1=Albiez |first1=Sean |editor1-last=Horn |editor1-first=David |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Vol. XI: Genres: Europe |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781501326103 |pages=36–38 |chapter=Avant-pop|doi=10.5040/9781501326110-0111 }}</ref> |
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In late 1960s Germany, an experimental avant-pop scene dubbed "[[krautrock]]" saw influential artists such as [[Kraftwerk]], [[Can (band)|Can]], and [[Tangerine Dream]] |
In late 1960s Germany, an experimental avant-pop scene dubbed "[[krautrock]]" saw influential artists such as [[Kraftwerk]], [[Can (band)|Can]], and [[Tangerine Dream]] draw inspiration from minimalism, German [[academic music]], and [[Anglo-America]]n [[pop-rock]].<ref name="bloomsbury"/> According to ''[[The Quietus]]''{{'}} David McNamee, the 1968 album ''[[An Electric Storm]]'', recorded by the [[electronic music]] group [[White Noise (band)|White Noise]] (featuring members from the U.K.’s [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]), is an "undisputed masterpiece of early avant-pop".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=McNamee|first1=David|title=The Best Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop On One Side Of A C90|journal=[[The Quietus]]|date=January 19, 2009|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01010-the-best-of-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop-archive-on-one-side-of-a-c90}}</ref> In the 1970s, [[progressive rock]] and [[post-punk]] music would see new avant-pop fusions, including the work of [[Pink Floyd]], [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], [[Henry Cow]], [[This Heat]], and [[the Pop Group]].<ref name="bloomsbury"/> More contemporary avant-pop artists have included [[David Sylvian]], [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]], and [[Björk]], whose vocal experimentation and innovative modes of expression have seen them move beyond norms of commercial pop music.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> |
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Others who have been credited as avant-pop's pioneers include the Velvet Underground's [[Lou Reed]],<ref name="Reed">{{cite magazine|last1=Marmer|first1=Jake|title=Lou Reed's Rabbi|magazine=[[Tablet Mag]]|date=October 29, 2012|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/115016/lou-reeds-rabbi-2}}</ref> singer [[Kate Bush]],<ref name="bloomsbury"/> performance artist [[Laurie Anderson]],<ref name="Laurie2016">{{cite news|author=Michael Anthony|title=Laurie Anderson, More Than 'Just a Storyteller'|url=http://www.startribune.com/laurie-anderson-more-than-just-a-storyteller/372858491/|work=[[Star Tribune]]|date=March 22, 2016}}</ref> [[art pop]] musician [[Spookey Ruben]],<ref name="ruben">{{cite magazine|last1=Siegel|first1=Evan|title=Avant-Pop Pioneer Spookey Ruben Conducts a Synth Symphony on |
Others who have been credited as avant-pop's pioneers include the Velvet Underground's [[Lou Reed]],<ref name="Reed">{{cite magazine|last1=Marmer|first1=Jake|title=Lou Reed's Rabbi|magazine=[[Tablet Mag]]|date=October 29, 2012|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/115016/lou-reeds-rabbi-2}}</ref> singer [[Kate Bush]],<ref name="bloomsbury"/> performance artist [[Laurie Anderson]],<ref name="Laurie2016">{{cite news|author=Michael Anthony|title=Laurie Anderson, More Than 'Just a Storyteller'|url=http://www.startribune.com/laurie-anderson-more-than-just-a-storyteller/372858491/|work=[[Star Tribune]]|date=March 22, 2016|access-date=November 25, 2016|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728143126/https://www.startribune.com/laurie-anderson-more-than-just-a-storyteller/372858491/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[art pop]] musician [[Spookey Ruben]],<ref name="ruben">{{cite magazine|last1=Siegel|first1=Evan|title=Avant-Pop Pioneer Spookey Ruben Conducts a Synth Symphony on 'Granma Faye'|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=February 10, 2016|url=http://www.spin.com/2016/02/spookey-ruben-granma-faye-premiere-stream/}}</ref> and [[Black Dice]]'s [[Eric Copeland]].<ref>Pitchfork Staff [https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/nov/18/eric-copeland-black-dice "Eric Copeland: avant-pop pioneer"], ''Guardian Music Blog'', November 18, 2008, accessed March 22, 2011.</ref> As of 2017, contemporary artists working in avant-pop areas include [[Julia Holter]], [[Holly Herndon]] and [[Oneohtrix Point Never]].<ref name="bloomsbury"/> |
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In 1979, Andrew Stiller of ''[[The Buffalo News]]'' wrote of two separate strands; "avant-garde pop", he theorised, comprised [[new wave music]] and acts like [[Brian Eno]], [[Devo (band)|Devo]] and [[Talking Heads]], whereas "pop avant-garde", he deemed, was "a popularization of the [[indeterminacy (music)|indeterminacy]] ''cum'' [[electronic musical instrument|electronics]] so widespread among classical composers a decade ago". He counted recent works by [[Vangelis]], [[Heldon]] and [[Bruce Ditmas]] as examples of the latter, and wrote that it originated in the [[counterculture of the 1960s|1960s counterculture]]'s "notions of universal amateurism" with pieces like [[the Doors]]' "[[Horse Latitudes (song)|Horse Latitudes]]" (1967), the Beatles' "[[Revolution 9]]" (1968) and, later, the solo improvisations of [[Terry Riley]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stiller |first1=Andrew |title=Classical |journal=The Buffalo News |date=February 9, 1979 |page=27 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/873294393/?terms=indeterminacy&match=1 |access-date=January 5, 2023}}</ref> |
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==List of artists== |
==List of artists== |
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{{See|List of avant-pop artists}} |
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Individuals are listed by surname. |
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* [[Tori Amos]]<ref>{{cite web| last=Ashare |first=Matt |url=http://www.newsadvance.com/the_burg/music/pop_rocks/foreign-affairs-the-alluring-avant-pop-of-french-songstress-laetitia/article_7ec2f946-3272-11e2-8048-0019bb30f31a.html |title=Foreign affairs: The alluring avant-pop of French songstress Laetitia Sadier and Iceland’s Sóley Stefánsdóttir |work=The News Advance |date=April 17, 2018 |accessdate=April 17, 2018}}</ref> |
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* [[Laurie Anderson]]<ref name="Laurie2016"/> |
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* [[Animal Collective]]<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Dolan|first1=Jon|title=Animal Collective: Painting With|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/animal-collective-painting-with-20160219|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|accessdate=December 17, 2016|date=February 19, 2016}}</ref> |
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* [[Fiona Apple]]<ref name="bushfiona">{{cite web |last=Hermes |first=Will |authorlink=Will Hermes |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/banks-goddess-20140909 |title=BANKS's New Album: Goddess |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=September 9, 2014 |accessdate=September 9, 2014}}</ref> |
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* [[Arca (musician)|Arca]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Morse |first=Erik |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/arca-talks-working-with-bjork-screaming-about-sex-explosive-new-lp-20151117 |title=Arca Talks Working With Bjork, Screaming About Sex, Explosive New LP |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=November 17, 2015 |accessdate=August 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Cardew |first=Ben |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/22860-sonar-2017-review-bad-gyal-arca-miiin-floorplan-thundercat |title=Things Learned At: Sónar 2017 |work=[[The Quietus]] |date=July 19, 2017 |accessdate=August 31, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Atlas Sound]]<ref name="SherburneGloFi"/> |
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* [[Autechre]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Morley|first1=Paul|authorlink1=Paul Morley|title=Autechre|journal=[[The Quietus]]|date=January 13, 2001|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/03536-autechre-album-details-paul-morley-essay}}</ref> |
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* [[Beck]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Caro|first1=Manuel J.|last2=Murphy|first2=John W.|title=The World of Quantum Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5bfBWBeFk8C&pg=PA104|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-97068-0|page=104}}</ref> |
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* [[Björk]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Björk | website=Telekom Electronic Beats | date=2018-08-07 | url=https://www.electronicbeats.net/artist/bjork/ | access-date=2019-08-11}}</ref><ref name="maloney2016"/> |
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* [[Kate Bush]]<ref name="maloney2016">{{cite news|last1=Maloney|first1=Sean L.|title=Album review: Your Friend, ‘Gumption’|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/01/27/album-review-your-friend-gumption/mVPjAOYJ9KWmE1ZeKkBoNP/story.html|work=[[Boston Globe]]|date=January 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="bushfiona"/> |
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* [[Coil (band)|Coil]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Zaldua | first=Chris | title=Industrial legend Drew McDowall on Coil and confronting global crisis | website=FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music. | date=2017-05-20 | url=https://www.factmag.com/2017/05/20/drew-mcdowall-interview/ | access-date=2019-08-11}}</ref> |
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* [[David Bowie]] (between 1977-79)<ref>{{cite book|last=Everett|first=Walter|title=Expression in pop-rock music: critical and analytical essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-h0JAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-97959-7}}</ref> |
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* [[The Feelies]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason|title=The Feelies|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-feelies-mn0000762177/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[FKA Twigs]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Cafolla |first=Anna |url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/34287/1/get-your-first-look-at-fka-twigs-zine-for-nike |title=FKA twigs has made a zine and you can see it here |work=[[Dazed]] |date=13 January 2017 |accessdate=30 August 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[The Flaming Lips]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Leopold|first1=Todd|title=What will save rock 'n' roll?|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/20/van.zandt.save.rock/index.html?iref=24hours|website=[[CNN]]|date=May 20, 2009}}</ref> |
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* [[Gauntlet Hair]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Phares|first1=Heather|title=Gauntlet Hair|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gauntlet-hair-mn0002482004/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Githead]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Neate|first1=Wilson|title=Githead - Art Pop|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/art-pop-mw0000489283|website=[[AllMusic]]|date=2007}}</ref> |
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*[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]<ref>[https://theseconddisc.com/2019/08/14/beyond-and-before-cherry-reds-avant-pop-and-art-rock-collection-features-yes-bowie-zombies-procol-harum-mick-ronson/ Beyond and Before: Cherry Red’s Avant-Pop and Art-Rock Collection Features Yes, Bowie, Zombies, Procol Harum, Mick Ronson - The Second Disc]</ref> |
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* [[Here We Go Magic]]<ref name="SherburneGloFi"/> |
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* [[The High Llamas]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Noel|title=A year in song (40 great tracks in 40 sentences)|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/a-year-in-song-40-great-tracks-in-40-sentences-66096|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=December 6, 2011}}</ref> |
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* [[Holly Herndon]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Cush |first=Andy |url=https://www.spin.com/2017/03/jlin-black-origami-new-album-planet-mu |title=Jlin Announces New Album Black Origami, Featuring William Basinski and Holly Herndon Collaborations |work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=March 14, 2017 |accessdate=August 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Jenny Hval]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Geffen |first=Sasha |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2969575/jenny-hval-blood-vampire-star |title=Jenny Hval: Dreams of Blood, Screams and Liberation |work=[[MTV]] |date=January 10, 2017 |accessdate=August 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Grace Jones]]<ref>{{cite news|author=Justin Joffe|title=AFROPUNK Announces Lineup, New Paid Ticket System|url=http://observer.com/2015/06/afropunk-announces-lineup-new-paid-ticket-system/|work=[[The Observer]]|date=June 2, 2015}}</ref> |
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* [[Daniel Johnston]]<ref>{{cite magazine|author1=''Spin'' Staff|title=Daniel Johnston and Supreme Join Forces for T-Shirt Line|url=http://www.spin.com/2012/06/daniel-johnston-and-supreme-join-forces-t-shirt-line/|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=June 12, 2012}}</ref> |
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* [[John Maus]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15596-we-must-become-the-pitiless-censors-of-ourselves/ | title=John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] | date=July 8, 2011 | accessdate=October 8, 2016 | author=Bevan, Davin}}</ref> |
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* [[Fela Kuti]]<ref name=f/> |
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* [[Memory Cassette]]<ref name="SherburneGloFi">{{cite web|last1=Sherburne |first1=Phillip |title=Hey Dude, You Got Chillwave In My Glo-Fi |url=http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/01/chillwave.html |website=rhapsody.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324135415/http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/01/chillwave.html |archivedate=March 24, 2010 |date=January 5, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* [[Mercury Rev]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Jason|last=Ankeny |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mercury-rev-mn0000408696/biography |title=Mercury Rev|website=[[AllMusic]] |date=September 11, 2001 |accessdate=}}</ref> |
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* [[Momus (musician)|Momus]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Simonini | first=Ross | title=Momus | website=BOMB Magazine | date=2014-06-19 | url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/momus/ | access-date=2019-08-11}}</ref> |
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* [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Phares|first1=Heather|title=Shocking Pinks|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/shocking-pinks-mn0001373596/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Róisín Murphy]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Stern |first=Bradley |url=http://www.idolator.com/7533255/roisin-murphy-says-her-new-album-is-like-nothing-youve-ever-heard-before |title= Róisín Murphy Says Her New Album Is "Like Nothing You've Ever Heard Before" |work=[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]] |date=August 24, 2014 |accessdate=August 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Of Montreal]] <ref>[https://consequenceofsound.net/2012/02/spotify-playlist-of-montreal-kevin-barnes/ Spotify Playlist: of Montreal (Kevin Barnes)|Consequence of Sound]</ref> |
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* [[Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|title=Pop: Recommended|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA72|date=December 22, 1984|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=1|issn=0006-2510}}</ref> |
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* [[Ariel Pink]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Andrew McCune |first=Isak |url=https://soulfeederweb.com/ariel-pink-dedicated-to-bobby-jameson-album-review/ |title=Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson Album Review |work=soulfeederweb.com |date=August 22, 2017 |accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Lou Reed]]<ref name="Reed"/> |
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* [[The Pop Group]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Horn|first=David|title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres: Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKc0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=5 October 2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-5013-2610-3|page=36}}</ref> |
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* [[The Residents]]<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Take a good hard look at America's preeminent underground avant-pop ensemble – you might like what you see|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdLsQBjl0-IC&pg=PA59|first=Richard|last=Gehr|date=April 1986|page=59|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Roxy Music]] (early records)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|authorlink1=Erlewine|title=Roxy Music - Avalon|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/avalon-mw0000195549|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Fairchild|first=Charles|title=Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN-0L2p83GgC&pg=PT120|date=26 June 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-39051-5|page=120}}</ref> |
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* [[Sevdaliza]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Darville, Jordan |url=http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/05/sevdaliza-interview-ison-twisted-elegance |title=Meet Sevdaliza, A Dutch-Iranian Roamer Finding A Spiritual Home In Music |work=[[The Fader]] |date=April 5, 2017 |accessdate=August 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Sophie (musician)|SOPHIE]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Kenneally|first=Cerys|title=GAIKA announces debut album BASIC VOLUME, featuring production from SOPHIE |
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|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/gaika-announces-debut-album-basic-volume-featuring-production-from-sophie|website=[[The Line of Best Fit]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Slapp Happy]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason|title=Slapp Happy|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/slapp-happy-mn0000749462|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[Spookey Ruben]]<ref name="ruben"/> |
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* [[St. Vincent (musician)|St. Vincent]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Hudson |first=Alex |url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/st_vincent-on_portlandia |title=St. Vincent on 'Portlandia' |work=[[Exclaim]] |date=February 6, 2012 |accessdate=August 30, 2017}}</ref> |
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* [[Stereolab]]<ref name="maloney2016"/><ref name="stereo">{{cite web|last1=Couture|first1=François|title=Sucre 3|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/sucre-3-mw0000774524|website=[[AllMusic]]|date=2001}}</ref> |
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* [[The Sugarcubes]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|authorlink1=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Björk|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bj%C3%B6rk-mn0000769444/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> |
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* [[A Sunny Day in Glasgow]]<ref name="SherburneGloFi"/> |
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* [[Tune-Yards]] <ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tune-yards-says-theres-a-bit-of-michael-jackson-on-nikki-nack-lp-109112/</ref> |
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* [[Ween]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Moser |first=John|url=https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/lehigh-valley-music/mc-dean-ween-avantpop-group-member-comedy-central-star-kyle-kinane-to-play-musikfest-cafe-20140917-story.html |title=Avant-pop group's member, Comedy Central star to play Musikfest Cafe |website=Mcall|date=September 2014}}</ref> |
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* [[Brian Wilson]] (between 1965–67)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hann|first1=Michael|title=The Beach Boys – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/30/beach-boys-review|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=September 30, 2012}}</ref> |
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*[[Yes (band)|Yes]]<ref>[https://theseconddisc.com/2019/08/14/beyond-and-before-cherry-reds-avant-pop-and-art-rock-collection-features-yes-bowie-zombies-procol-harum-mick-ronson/ Beyond and Before: Cherry Red’s Avant-Pop and Art-Rock Collection Features Yes, Bowie, Zombies, Procol Harum, Mick Ronson - The Second Disc]</ref> |
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* [[Frank Zappa]]<ref name="avanttribeca"/> |
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Latest revision as of 21:55, 29 March 2024
Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles[1] while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.[2] The term implies a combination of avant-garde sensibilities with existing elements from popular music in the service of novel or idiosyncratic artistic visions.[3]
Definition
[edit]"Avant-pop" has been used to label music which balances experimental or avant-garde approaches with stylistic elements from popular music, and which probes mainstream conventions of structure or form.[3] Writer Tejumola Olaniyan describes "avant-pop music" as transgressing "the boundaries of established styles, the meanings those styles reference, and the social norms they support or imply."[1] Music writer Sean Albiez describes "avant-pop" as identifying idiosyncratic artists working in "a liminal space between contemporary classical music and the many popular music genres that developed in the second half of the twentieth century."[3] He noted avant-pop's basis in experimentalism, as well its postmodern and non-hierarchical incorporation of varied genres such as pop, electronica, rock, classical, and jazz.[3]
Paul Grimstad of The Brooklyn Rail writes that avant-pop is music that "re-sequences" the elements of song structure "so that (a) none of the charm of the tune is lost, but (b) this very accessibility leads one to bump into weirder elements welded into the design."[2] The Tribeca New Music Festival defines "avant-pop" as "music that draws its energy from both popular music and classical forms."[4] The term has elsewhere been used by literary critic Larry McCaffery to describe "the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave."[5]
History
[edit]In the 1960s, as popular music began to gain cultural importance and question its status as commercial entertainment, musicians began to look to the post-war avant-garde for inspiration.[3] In 1959, music producer Joe Meek recorded I Hear a New World (1960), which Tiny Mix Tapes' Jonathan Patrick calls a "seminal moment in both electronic music and avant-pop history [...] a collection of dreamy pop vignettes, adorned with dubby echoes and tape-warped sonic tendrils" which would be largely ignored at the time.[6] Other early avant-pop productions included the Beatles's 1966 song "Tomorrow Never Knows", which incorporated techniques from musique concrète, avant-garde composition, Indian music, and electro-acoustic sound manipulation into a 3-minute pop format, and the Velvet Underground's integration of La Monte Young's minimalist and drone music ideas, beat poetry, and 1960s pop art.[3]
In late 1960s Germany, an experimental avant-pop scene dubbed "krautrock" saw influential artists such as Kraftwerk, Can, and Tangerine Dream draw inspiration from minimalism, German academic music, and Anglo-American pop-rock.[3] According to The Quietus' David McNamee, the 1968 album An Electric Storm, recorded by the electronic music group White Noise (featuring members from the U.K.’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop), is an "undisputed masterpiece of early avant-pop".[7] In the 1970s, progressive rock and post-punk music would see new avant-pop fusions, including the work of Pink Floyd, Genesis, Henry Cow, This Heat, and the Pop Group.[3] More contemporary avant-pop artists have included David Sylvian, Scott Walker, and Björk, whose vocal experimentation and innovative modes of expression have seen them move beyond norms of commercial pop music.[3]
Others who have been credited as avant-pop's pioneers include the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed,[8] singer Kate Bush,[3] performance artist Laurie Anderson,[9] art pop musician Spookey Ruben,[10] and Black Dice's Eric Copeland.[11] As of 2017, contemporary artists working in avant-pop areas include Julia Holter, Holly Herndon and Oneohtrix Point Never.[3]
In 1979, Andrew Stiller of The Buffalo News wrote of two separate strands; "avant-garde pop", he theorised, comprised new wave music and acts like Brian Eno, Devo and Talking Heads, whereas "pop avant-garde", he deemed, was "a popularization of the indeterminacy cum electronics so widespread among classical composers a decade ago". He counted recent works by Vangelis, Heldon and Bruce Ditmas as examples of the latter, and wrote that it originated in the 1960s counterculture's "notions of universal amateurism" with pieces like the Doors' "Horse Latitudes" (1967), the Beatles' "Revolution 9" (1968) and, later, the solo improvisations of Terry Riley.[12]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Olaniyan, Tejumola (2004). Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics. Indiana University Press. p. 7. ISBN 0253110343.
- ^ a b Paul Grimstad (September 4, 2007). "What Is Avant-Pop?". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Albiez, Sean (2017). "Avant-pop". In Horn, David (ed.). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Vol. XI: Genres: Europe. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 36–38. doi:10.5040/9781501326110-0111. ISBN 9781501326103.
- ^ Kozinn, Alann (May 11, 2006). "'Emerging Avant-Pop': From Charles Ives to Frank Zappa". The New York Times.
- ^ McCaffery, Larry (1993). Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation. University of Alabama Press. pp. 12, back cover. ISBN 978-0-932511-72-0.
- ^ Patrick, Jonathan (March 8, 2013). "Joe Meek's pop masterpiece I Hear a New World gets the chance to haunt a whole new generation of audiophile geeks". Tiny Mix Tapes.
- ^ McNamee, David (January 19, 2009). "The Best Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop On One Side Of A C90". The Quietus.
- ^ Marmer, Jake (October 29, 2012). "Lou Reed's Rabbi". Tablet Mag.
- ^ Michael Anthony (March 22, 2016). "Laurie Anderson, More Than 'Just a Storyteller'". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
- ^ Siegel, Evan (February 10, 2016). "Avant-Pop Pioneer Spookey Ruben Conducts a Synth Symphony on 'Granma Faye'". Spin.
- ^ Pitchfork Staff "Eric Copeland: avant-pop pioneer", Guardian Music Blog, November 18, 2008, accessed March 22, 2011.
- ^ Stiller, Andrew (February 9, 1979). "Classical". The Buffalo News: 27. Retrieved January 5, 2023.