Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the by Doyle Greene

By Doyle Greene

The convergence of rock track, counterculture politics and avant-garde aesthetics within the past due Sixties underscored the careers of the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the moms of Invention, and the Velvet Underground.
This ebook examines those artists’ relationships to the old avant-garde (Artaud, Brecht, Dada) and neo–avant-garde (Warhol, Pop artwork, minimalism), contemplating their paintings in gentle of debates approximately modernism as opposed to postmodernism.
the writer analyzes the performers’ use of dissonance and noise inside of well known track, the position of social observation and debatable themes in songs, and the experiments with live performance and studio performance.
Albums mentioned comprise Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts membership Band, The White Album, Freak Out!, We’re in simple terms in It for the money, The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat, in addition to John Lennon’s collaborations with Yoko Ono, the Zappa-produced Trout masks Replica by way of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, and Nico’s The Marble Index.

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